 Matthew Williams also died in the incident after being shot with a Tazer ( WALES NEWS SERVICE) A trio of potential investors had been interested in the former hotel which was up for auction at Paul Fosh Auctions. Angie Davey, regional valuer at the Newport-based auction house, said: 'The new owners, successful at the auction, have bagged a whole lot of property for their money.' A spokesman added: 'Interested parties have been informed of the property's history and most are keen to bid on it, regardless of its past.' The sale comes five years after a jury ruled Cerys was unlawfully killed at an inquest into her death. The hotel of horrors has sold at auction for £270,000 ( WALES NEWS SERVICE) The inquest heard she was found with bruises, grazes, other bite marks and "sharp force trauma" - meaning "cutting" of the skin. Killer Williams - who was high on drugs - was tasered four times in seven minutes by police and had 1.7 milligrams per litre of amphetamines in his blood. The inquest jury){kind=link}
The Sirhowy Arms Hotel in Bargoed, south Wales hit headlines in November 2014 when former prison inmate Matthew Williams killed Cerys Yemm and has now sold at auction
A hotel where a woman was brutally attacked and killed by a cannibal found eating her face has sold at auction for more than £250,000.
Cerys Yemm, 22, died having suffered 89 injuries in the attack by Matthew Williams, 34, who had been freed from prison two weeks before.
The shopkeeper had gone back to the room at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel in Bargoed, south Wales, with Williams who was was found in the room covered in blood following the sickening attack.
An inquest in 2017 was told Williams died himself when he was tasered by a lone police officer who attended the call-out.