Victim of South Wales "Cannibal Attack" Identified as Cerys Yemm

Officials identified the victim of the controversial "cannibal attack" in South Wales Friday as Cerys Marie Yemm.

Yemm, 22, was a sales assistant at clothing giant Next and had met her murderer Matthew Williams at a bar. The ex-con, 34-year-old Williams, was reportedly eating the face and an eyeball of Yemm before police used a 50,000 volt Taser on him to apprehend him, The Belfast Telegraph reports. He died soon after police caught him in his room at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel.

Yemm, who used "Yummy Yemmy" as her online nickname, died of multiple injuries.

The two met at a bar and shared a drink together on a night out. He offered to call her a taxi home and took her to his homeless hostel in Argoed, near Blackwood, BBC reports.

As soon as they entered his room, the high-on-cocaine cannibal, launched a horrific, savage-like attack on the woman.

A friend of Yemm's said: "They met that night in a bar and got chatting for the first time. They had been drinking and he persuaded her back to the hotel and said he'd get her a taxi home. Once he got her back in the hotel he must have invited her up to his room and that's where he attacked her," The Guardian reports.

As many as 999 workers, who witnessed the event, needed counseling as they were "shocked" by the degree of monstrosity exhibited by Williams.

Williams was freed from prison just two weeks ago. He was jailed for attacking his former girlfriend. The Daily Star reports that prison and probation service chiefs will now face a probe into "why it was deemed safe to release violent thug Williams half-way through a five-year jail term."

Yemm's family,which includes her mother Paula (49), brother Cavan (25) and sister Shannon, requested they be left "alone to grieve". Paula is reportedly being comforted by loved ones at her home in Oakdale, near Blackwood.