A HOTEL landlady told today how she found a "cannibal" killer dripping with blood in the darkness after he butchered a young shop worker and chewed on her face.

Mandy Miles said drug-crazed Matthew Williams was "demonic, possessed and eyes black", adding: "He looked like Darth Maul."

10 Matthew Williams was released from jail just two weeks before he killed Cerys Credit: Wales News Service

10 Cerys Yemm was found covered in blood and lying underneath Williams after the horrific attack Credit: Wales News Service

10 Mandy Miles told an inquest she saw the killer crouching over the victim apparently chewing on her face Credit: Wales News Service

10 Mandy said 'demonic, black-eyed' Williams had blood dripping from his mouth and looked like Darth Maul from the Star Wars films Credit: Alamy

Mandy and her son Christian unlocked the door after hearing screams from Williams' room and found him stabbing and biting victim Cerys Yemm, 22.

Mandy, 50, told an inquest: "He was red and black. He didn't have a clue what he was doing.

"Christian said to him, 'That's a girl there'. Matthew said, 'That's no girl'. He put his head straight back down on her.

"There was blood dripping from his mouth.

"He wasn't himself. He couldn't have been otherwise he wouldn't have done it."

Williams later died himself after being Tasered by police at the half-way house hostel where he was staying after being freed from jail just two weeks before the killing.

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In a 999 call played to the inquest jury, Mandy tells the operator: "He's shoving a screwdriver in her face. He's actually chewing her face.

"He's been locked in room seven. I don't know who he's hurting.

"There's a lad in the room. He's actually eating her. It's awful. His name is Matthew Williams and he's in room seven."

She is heard sobbing as she says: "There was screaming and screaming. Oh my God. It's awful.

"I went into the room and he's killed her. Oh my God. Is this real?

"There's blood everywhere and it looks like a horror film.

"He was using the screwdriver and stabbing."

10 Shopworker Cerys Yemm was killed by Williams after he binged on drink and drugs Credit: Wales News Service

10 Schizophrenic Matthew Williams had warned his mother the voices in his head had returned Credit: Wales News Service

10 Police found a scene of horror at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel where Williams was staying after his prison release Credit: Wales News Service

10 Forensics officers examine in the room where Williams butchered Cerys Yemm in November 2014 Credit: Wales News Service

Mrs Miles, 50, told the inquest: "As I opened the door, the light from the landing was shining in the room. I saw a body on the floor, with Matthew on top of her.

"I've taken two years to try and forget this. It looked to me as if he was eating her.

"I shouted to him, 'Matthew, do you know what you are doing? Are you eating her?'

"Science has proved that he wasn't but that's what it looked like. There's just blood dripping from her. It was horrific."

She added: "He didn't react to me. He only reacted to Christian. He stopped and went straight back down to her.

"I thought I was going to have to hit him with the fire extinguisher.

"I wanted to make sure that he couldn't get out. If he got out, he could have killed everybody.

"I couldn't look back into the room. I was terrified."

Earlier the inquest heard mentally ill Williams had binged on drink and drugs and told his mother his "head wasn't right" in the days leading up to the killing in November 2014.

He had been released from custody with no medication or supervision despite being sectioned twice and complaining of hearing voices in his head, the jury was told.

Best friend Rhodri Moore said Williams seemed fine after his release from jail, but deteriorated "after the first couple days".

He said: "He was taking drugs on a daily basis. He said when he looked at a can of Coke he could see faces.

"He wasn't very well. He was seeing things, hallucinating. He was annoyed and on edge. Depressed.

"He couldn't get any medication. His mother was trying very hard to get someone to see him.

"He was willing to be helped. He wanted to be helped."

He said Williams binged on amphetamines and cannabis after his release and was smoking weed the day before he killed Cerys, who he had met only two weeks before.

10 Hotel owner Mandy Miles found a bloodbath when she unlocked the door and saw drug-crazed Williams brutally attacking Cerys in his room Credit: Wales News Service

10 Williams was staying at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel in Argoed after his release from jail two weeks before the killing Credit: Wales News Service

Mr Moore went on: "He was looking wired. He looked to me like he hadn't been asleep."

The killer's mother Sally Ann Williams said her son had been diagnosed with drug-induced schizophrenia after claiming he was a tree and saying his food was poisoned.

She said: "There was no mental health support whatsoever.

"He told me he'd been released without any medication. He'd been released without licence and had no probation restrictions."

She added her son complained "the voices were back" in the days before the killing.

Mrs Williams said: "He told me his head wasn't right."

But she said he "seemed fine" hours before he killed Cerys when she dropped groceries for him at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel at Argoed, near Caerphilly, South Wales.

Later he sent her a text saying he had made "a lovely dinner" with the food she brought him.

In the early hours of the next morning he killed Cerys in his room and died after being Tasered by police responding to the bloody scene.

His mother told the coroner's jury: "I returned the next day and that's when I found out what had happened."

The inquest in Newport, South Wales, continues.

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