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The Beast of Jersey - Edward Paisnel
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The Beast of Jersey - Edward Paisnel
Edward Paisnel was a notorious sex offender who terrorised the Channel Island of Jersey from 1957 to 1971. He entered homes at night dressed in a rubber mask and nail-studded wristlets, attacking women and children.
Between 1957 and 1971, Paisnel stalked and raped more than 13 people living on the remote isle of Jersey, which is part of the Channel Islands between England and France... Read story
By day, he was a construction worker who lived with his wife, Joan, and her children - a seemly average man. He would even play Santa for the children at Christmas. But by night he was planning and carrying out his brutal assaults as well as taunting the police.
On 17 July 1971 Paisnel was stopped by the police after running a red traffic light and then attempting to evade police pursuit. In the car, which he had stolen earlier that evening, were discovered several pointed sticks and elements of his "Beast" costume. In December 1971 he was convicted of 13 counts of assault, rape and sodomy and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Though he would be released back into society after only 20 in 1991. He would die in 1994 of a heart attack.
Another tragic element of this case is that of an innocent man called Alphonse Le Gastelois. Alphonse was suspected initially as was a local hermit and seen as strange. Locals would burn down his house and he would live the rest of his life in exile because of the stigma of being accused of such vile crimes.
This man was straight from a horror movie, a truly disturbing and little known criminal rampage.
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