His victim, who was identified as Cerys Marie Yemm, according to the BBC, was pronounced dead from her injuries at the scene.

The man and woman are believed to have been in a relationship of some kind, police said. He reportedly took her to his room for a drink in violation of the house rules, according to the Irish Times. When security entered the room after he refused to answer the door, they found the man attacking the woman’s face.

An unnamed security guard confirmed to the Irish Times that the woman was a victim of a cannibalistic attack.

AD

AD

“Security said they told him no girls in his room and he didn’t answer, when they opened his door he was eating her face,” said Jill Edwards, who lives near the hotel, according to the Telegraph.

Williams, who was known by his nickname “Fifi,” was a local resident, police said. He had recently been released after serving a five-year prison sentence for a violent attack on a woman, according to the Independent.

People who live near the recently converted halfway house were shocked by the sudden violent turn.

“He went Hannibal Lecter on the woman,” Lyn Beasley, who lives nearby, told the Irish Times.

Others blamed the facility for ruining the “nice area.”

AD

“You always see people coming in and out [of the hotel]. There’s even a mattress under the bridge nearby where some end up sleeping if they get kicked out,” one 82-year old local resident told Wales Online. “It’s a shame. But having a halfway house here many of the residents don’t like it. It spoils a nice area.”

AD

Police are conducting a homicide investigation into Yemm’s death, and they are not looking for any other suspects.

An Independent Police Complaints Commission is also probing Williams’s death.

A spokeswoman for Gwent Police said that after the man was Tased and arrested he became unresponsive and died despite first aid administered by officers and paramedics on the scene.

AD

The commissioner for the Independent Police Complaints Commission said they have made contact with the man’s family.