David Farrant

Redmond McWilliams of Morden, Surrey, became obsessed with the sinister goings-on at Highgate Cemetery early in the new century, even though the happenings occurred at a time when he was not born. He sought out David Farrant of Muswell Hill, London, and quickly became Farrant's general dogsbody. He ran websites, groups and Facebook pages to promote Farrant's skewed propaganda as a self-proclaimed Luciferian and, up until 1982, the self-styled "high priest of British witchcraft." 

McWilliams, an openly homosexual man who supports "Gay Pride" events and campaigns, was born in Derry (aka Londonderry) in Northern Island and raised as a Roman Catholic. He had eschewed Christianity by the time he met Farrant, and is best described as an atheist. His attraction to Farrant, whose behaviour is overtly anti-Christian, and extreme hostility toward Seán Manchester stems from the latter's outspoken views on matters of personal morality from a traditional Christian perspective.

In recent years, McWilliams has confessed to using multiple false accounts in order to either infiltrate groups, especially where these are closed to non-members, administrated by Seán Manchester whom he has on occasions fraudulently impersonated on Facebook to gather intelligence for his mentor Farrant; though he was always rumbled quite early on. McWilliams runs a Facebook account under the pseudonym "Ian Ike Flynn" that contains explicit images of homosexual pornography. 

David Farrant has executed a personal vendetta and hate campaign against Seán Manchester (whom he first came into contact with in March 1970) for most of his life. He has admitted sending voodoo "death dolls" to total strangers, including pop stars Long John Baldry, Graham Bond, and a doctor's wife who spoke out against Farrant's propensity for allegedly sacrificing cats. Others with whom he was vaguely acquainted also received black magic threats, including Seán Manchester. Farrant was sentenced to four years and eight months imprisonment in the summer of 1974 for graveyard vandalism, tomb desecration, and threatening witnesses with black magic in another man's case. That man, John Pope, had collaborated in Farrant's attempts to summon up demons using rituals devised by Aleister Crowley. He was found guilty of sexual assault on a minor, a boy named Blackwell, and has ever since remained in support of Farrant who claims (in New Witchcraft magazine #4) to have invited a "satanic force" take possession of him in Highgate Cemetery after dark in 1971.

Farrant with an effigy of the "decapitated 

head" of the Right Rev'd Seán Manchester.

Redmond McWilliams with David Farrant in

the latter's Muswell Hill attic bedsitting room.

Every interview David Farrant gives on a podcast, programme or video he attempts to smear Seán Manchester who has only once mentioned Farrant in a transmission, and that was on 13 March 1970 on Today (Thames Television), which was to warn against him unwisely venturing into Highgate Cemetery at night, something Farrant proposed to do, as intimated in the Hampstead & Highgate Express, 6 March 1970. Farrant did not heed the advice and consequently lost his liberty when he was arrested and held on remand at Brixton Prison after police searching for black magic devotees found him around midnight in Highgate Cemetery on 17 August 1970. He was arrested again at Hallowe'en 1972 in Monken Hadley churchyard under the Ecclesiastic Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860, and found guilty of indecency along with Victoria Jervis who was also found guilty. Her revelations under oath when called as a witness during Farrant's Old Bailey trials two years later are damning. 

This is what she said:

"I have tried to put most of what happened out of my mind. The false letters I wrote to a local paper were to stimulate publicity for the accused. I saw him almost every weekend in the second half of 1972 and I went to Spain with him for a fortnight at the end of June that same year. I was arrested with him in Monken Hadley Churchyard. That incident upset me very much. Afterwards, my doctor prescribed tranquillisers for me."

Facing David Farrant in court to address him, Victoria Jervis added:

"You have photographed me a number of times in your flat with no clothes on. One photograph was published in 1972 with a false caption claiming I was a member of your Society, which I never was."

On another occasion, she recalled, how she had written pseudonymously to a local newspaper at Farrant's request "to stimulate publicity for the accused."

About the indecency case: "Mr P J Bucknell, prosecuting, said Mr Farrant had painted circles on the ground, lit with candles, and had told reporters and possibly the police of what he was doing. 'This appears to be a sordid attempt to obtain publicity,' he said." (Hampstead & Highgate Express, 24 November 1972).

David Farrant being arrested in Monken Hadley churchyard in 1972 alongside 

Victoria Jervis. He claimed at the time he was engaged in a necromantic ritual.

Farrant and his friend Pope made the choice to pursue the Left-hand Path long before they first met in November 1973 (photographed below). It was a conscious, albeit disastrous, decision from which they never recovered or recanted. Pope went on to make contact with many notorious Satanists, as did his associate Farrant whose desire to emulate them landed him with a lengthy prison sentence.

Farrant and Pope celebrate their pact to join 

forces in a Highgate pub in November 1973.