Bite marks part of 89 injuries on murdered woman’s body

A YOUNG woman killed in a horrific attack by a recently released prisoner suffered at least 89 individual injuries, including bite marks, an inquest has heard.

Cerys Yemm, 22, died after 34-yearold Matthew Williams cut and struck her face, neck and body in his firstfloor room at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel in Argoed, Blackwood, in the early hours of November 6, 2014.

Gwent Coroner’s Court in Newport has previously heard how hotel owner Mandy Miles called police after residents heard screaming from the room and she went to open the door.

Mrs Miles said Williams was dripping in blood and “eating” Miss Yemm, but continued his attack despite being interrupted. She said she has since learned that the “science” has proved that Williams was not performing an act of cannibalism, but that was what it looked like to her.

Home Office-registered pathologist Richard Jones said he carried out the post-mortem examination on Miss Yemm and found 24 separate “areas” of injury which included “at least” 89 separate injuries that he could count.

“Half of which were on the head,” he said. “The injuries were either blunt force bruises or grazes or they were sharp force, which is essentially cutting, or a mixture of the two, and then there were three or four injuries which were a special sort of injury, which is a bite mark.”

Mr Jones said of the “multiple” blunt injuries to the face, those on the left side had a pattern in them that was consistent with an “impact or more than one impact through clothing or a similar fabric-covered surface”.

He said there were injuries to the