Beverley Mason

Beverley Mason, above, seated in Seán Manchester's art studio in August 2005. Below she is seen two years later in 2007. Much had changed, and that change was brought about due to the intention of both her and her husband, Kevin Chesham, to embark upon a path which led to Farrant. 

Beverley Mason and her husband Kevin Chesham (seated at their host's table in these images) attended a private Christmas dinner given by Seán Manchester and his wife on 26 December 2007. It was not unusual for people he had encountered down the years to be guests at his table. Indeed, Seán Manchester held a number of Christmas parties for friends, acquaintances and sundry individuals each year throughout December. These would be attended by anything up to twelve people, and on some occasions more. The attendees knew one another as a general rule. However, this would be the last time that Mason and Chesham would be present in person at such an occasion.

With the dinner over, people chatted and drank coffee, or, at least, tried to. Chesham and Mason were unusually reticent. At this point Mason said she wanted to be excused, but refused to use the downstairs lavatory, as she had always done in the past, and headed off for the one on the first floor.

While absent from those in the studio area on the ground floor, Mason set about going through the private belongings of Seán Manchester and his wife on the first floor, using her 'phone to photograph anything thought to have potential for causing damage. She focused on his small collection of militaria and sundry memorabilia, much of which had been kept from schooldays and teenage years, that was housed in a temporary storeroom. When she returned downstairs it would not be long before she and Chesham made their excuses and departed, never to be seen again. Time passed and nothing was heard from either of them. Then it became apparent that they had established contact with Farrant. This was initially denied when Mason was approached privately by Seán Manchester, but neither of them had bargained with Farrant spilling the beans on the internet, keeping the public informed about his progress with his new "good friends" and collaborators Kevin Chesham and Beverley Mason. Seán Manchester's warnings fell on deaf ears, especially after Chesham blocked him on Facebook.

They continued to develop a bond with Farrant, inviting him to spend Christmas with them whilst they were briefly resident in Finchley, London. Using the pseudonym "Raggety," Beverley Mason created a malicious blog in 2013 on which incitements of hatred were made against Seán Manchester and his friends. The fabrication, falsehood and defamation published by her could have come straight from Farrant himself. The following year she was busy giving Farrant five star reviews for his self-published drivel on Amazon; pamphlets, booklets and books crammed with libel, misrepresentation and copyright infringement that were sold from his attic bed-sitting room in London's Muswell Hill.

Farrant stated in a Penthouse magazine article: "Satanists worship Lucifer, the supreme power of evil, whereas witchcraft is a neutral thing — it's only evil if practised for an evil purpose." Like several of his Luciferian acquaintances, Jean-Paul Bourre amongst them, Farrant describes himself as someone who “accepts Lucifer as an important deity” and that he“worships Lucifer.” His words can be heard on a CD titled The Devil’s Fool which comprises thirty-two interview extracts from as many years of this man's infamous publicity-seeking career that is garnished throughout with the diabolical.

A video made by and featuring David Farrant with his satanic accomplice Gareth Medway at Christmas 2011 in his dingy bedsit culminates with the decapitation of Seán Manchester's head in effigy in the closing minutes. The video can be viewed at this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYUr15UwO7A 

David Farrant has always attempted to contrive an infamous persona where necromantic diabolism quickly overshadowed his earlier attempts in 1970 to mimic Seán Manchester as an exorcist. He then adopted a phoney form of witchcraft where he manufactured quasi-satanic stunts for the benefit of the press. These cost him his liberty with him ending up being sentenced to a term of imprisonment. Though similar publicity stunts ensued upon his release from prison, he would never again catch the attention of the media in the same way that he did prior to and during his notorious "witchcraft" trials at the Old Bailey in 1974. His notoriety nonetheless continues to attract those who are often life's failures, non-entities and individuals who are more than willing to enter into a pact with the Devil.

Kevin Chesham's bizarre correspondence of December 2009, which proved to be his last to Seán Manchester's good friend of many years, Keith Maclean, ended with these fortuitous words:

Unknown to Seán Manchester at the time, Kevin's "struggle" had long since taken a different and more sinister direction — one that took him into the clutches of David Robert Donovan Farrant.

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Keith Maclean's observations in a letter to Seán Manchester about the collusion between Farrant and his new found friends follows:

Nota Bene: "B.K." stands deceptively for "Brother Kevin" who would address Keith Maclean as "Brother Keith" in personal correspondence (see below). "K.C." (also employed by Keith Maclean above) are Chesham's initials. The portrait mentioned in the above correspondence is an expressionist painting finished at approximately the time of Kevin Chesham's final meeting with Seán Manchester in December 2007. The portrait was later reworked and given the title "Fool." 

Click on the image to view the reworked canvas.