caught a National bus to Cardigan in West Wales, where
he grew his hair long, wore a beard and played a guitar in the
Carpenters Arms pub.
Soon he had a
circle of admirers, Girls would kneel at his feet as he sat on the
bar stool and played the guitar, He was certainly a magnet to the
small community.
Due to his
upbringing, Mason had little respect for women. He shared a large
house with a commune where the girls outnumbered the men by four to
one.
Mason was head
of the commune, He made the rules, one of the rules being that the
dogs had to be fed before the women, Girls had to submit instantly
to the men, He banned contraceptives and alcohol, but the girls
worshipped him like a god.
Women would
travel from Cenarth, Llechryd and Llandysul to sleep with him. One
woman from Cenarth brought along her 12-year-old daughter, when
Mason told the mother to leave because she was too old and to leave
the daughter, she obeyed.
Mason’s
incredible magnetism gave him an entry to the wilder fringe of the
Cardiganshire area and he got employment in the local mortuary.
When he was
playing his guitar in the pub, he would outrage the customers by
telling them of his interference with corpses, sometimes to steal
rings or gold teeth, but other times simply because he enjoyed
handling their bodies and occasionally masturbating over them when
he wasn’t indulging in full sex with them.
The location
of this remote area was ideal as a hideout as he could return to
Cardigan to lay low after his attacks on women in the city streets
of Swansea.
With his
constant disregard for women, he would prowl the streets looking
for prostitutes, where he would drive them to a remote location
outside the city boundaries and slaughter them with repeated blows
from a blunt instrument and stabbing them with a screwdriver. Many
victims found were mutilated and unrecognisable.
He had been
caught by chance, as he was unaware of the roadblocks the police
had set up on in Newcastle Emlyn, not far from his home.
The police
noticed his blood-stained jacket and took him to the local police
station. He was arrested after confessing to thirteen murders over
a period of eight months. He was jailed for life, where he led a
lonely existence on the wing, only Bell befriended him.
Bill’s older
sister would occasionally visit him but always unaccompanied,
although she was married with two children. There were glass
barriers between the prisoner and the visitor, with officers always
nearby. The screen is placed in fear that a message or an object
might be passed which could help in an attempted escape.
Bill found his
rare visit unpleasant and frustrating waiting for the families to
be allowed in the room, other prisoners showed tension and frayed
tempers before they arrived and at times scuffles would break
out.
Many of the
inmates on the Bell’s high security wing did not get any visitors
at all, some because they never married or because the marriage had
already broken down when they had been sentenced, so many of Bill’s
mates were lonely because they are isolated and difficult
individuals who had found it hard to make a relationship, let alone
sustain one. The only visits many would get would be from their
voluntary prison visitor.
Letters were
also limited, although Bell had few friends to correspond with and
all letters in closed prisons were censored before being
delivered.
Bell’s sister
had little to say and less from him, but she would pass the time
with small talk into the happenings of the outside world.
For the other
lonely souls, only radio and television would at least bring some
general news, although soap operas and comedy shows were often
preferred where inmates could see how people looked and what they
wore. Such a mirror of the world is important to the long sentence
prisoners, whose sheer length of isolation produces special
problems and the possibility of sinking into deep depression and
apathy if their minds and bodies are not kept as
he grew his hair long, wore a beard and played a guitar in the
Carpenters Arms pub.
Soon he had a
circle of admirers, Girls would kneel at his feet as he sat on the
bar stool and played the guitar, He was certainly a magnet to the
small community.
Due to his
upbringing, Mason had little respect for women. He shared a large
house with a commune where the girls outnumbered the men by four to
one.
Mason was head
of the commune, He made the rules, one of the rules being that the
dogs had to be fed before the women, Girls had to submit instantly
to the men, He banned contraceptives and alcohol, but the girls
worshipped him like a god.
Women would
travel from Cenarth, Llechryd and Llandysul to sleep with him. One
woman from Cenarth brought along her 12-year-old daughter, when
Mason told the mother to leave because she was too old and to leave
the daughter, she obeyed.
Mason’s
incredible magnetism gave him an entry to the wilder fringe of the
Cardiganshire area and he got employment in the local mortuary.
When he was
playing his guitar in the pub, he would outrage the customers by
telling them of his interference with corpses, sometimes to steal
rings or gold teeth, but other times simply because he enjoyed
handling their bodies and occasionally masturbating over them when
he wasn’t indulging in full sex with them.
The location
of this remote area was ideal as a hideout as he could return to
Cardigan to lay low after his attacks on women in the city streets
of Swansea.
With his
constant disregard for women, he would prowl the streets looking
for prostitutes, where he would drive them to a remote location
outside the city boundaries and slaughter them with repeated blows
from a blunt instrument and stabbing them with a screwdriver. Many
victims found were mutilated and unrecognisable.
He had been
caught by chance, as he was unaware of the roadblocks the police
had set up on in Newcastle Emlyn, not far from his home.
The police
noticed his blood-stained jacket and took him to the local police
station. He was arrested after confessing to thirteen murders over
a period of eight months. He was jailed for life, where he led a
lonely existence on the wing, only Bell befriended him.
Bill’s older
sister would occasionally visit him but always unaccompanied,
although she was married with two children. There were glass
barriers between the prisoner and the visitor, with officers always
nearby. The screen is placed in fear that a message or an object
might be passed which could help in an attempted escape.
Bill found his
rare visit unpleasant and frustrating waiting for the families to
be allowed in the room, other prisoners showed tension and frayed
tempers before they arrived and at times scuffles would break
out.
Many of the
inmates on the Bell’s high security wing did not get any visitors
at all, some because they never married or because the marriage had
already broken down when they had been sentenced, so many of Bill’s
mates were lonely because they are isolated and difficult
individuals who had found it hard to make a relationship, let alone
sustain one. The only visits many would get would be from their
voluntary prison visitor.
Letters were
also limited, although Bell had few friends to correspond with and
all letters in closed prisons were censored before being
delivered.
Bell’s sister
had little to say and less from him, but she would pass the time
with small talk into the happenings of the outside world.
For the other
lonely souls, only radio and television would at least bring some
general news, although soap operas and comedy shows were often
preferred where inmates could see how people looked and what they
wore. Such a mirror of the world is important to the long sentence
prisoners, whose sheer length of isolation produces special
problems and the possibility of sinking into deep depression and
apathy if their minds and bodies are not kept as
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