BY THE EDITOR

PART 2 of 3: Daddy, is that the Witch?

Before reading this part, please catch up with the curious goings-on with the Roberts family in Part One here.

At first, on seeing the photos of Erdmute ‘Eddie’ Roberts, I was convinced we had identified Serenwyl. This woman dressed as a witch, her surroundings were filthy, she worked as a pet sitter, she was an ex-publican (as was Chris Roberts), and she talked with Chris on Facebook about ‘knowing evil’, even posing proudly in front of a TV screen displaying the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The black clothes, the evil grin, the cats – this had to be the ‘Evillest Troll in Britain’, Serenwyl Roberts.

We had her. Finally we had the face of the boundary-free witch who had been causing so many people so much pain.

For a while I was jubilant – the lady in the photographs was clearly Serenwyl who had also caused me and my family so much pain for the last months. This was the bane of the field sports world. It was this vile old bat who was responsible for all the highly sexualised comments and army of false IDs fashioned over the years which had terrorised me, colleagues, family and countrysiders.

A cigar moment seemed nigh.

But then we dug some more and our assumptions about Eddie turned out to be partially misplaced…

For Eddie/Erdmute Roberts in Gloucester had little or no idea about what ‘Serenwyl’ was getting up to over in Rhymney, Wales. One of Eddie’s pet-sitting clients was most helpful and talkative. There was no way that Eddie was Serenwyl. She did not have either the language or computer skills. Yes, Chris Roberts was definitely her ex-husband and she had mentioned in conversation that he was ‘weird’ but she was almost certainly not the stalker/troll we had been pursuing, who used a Rhymney IP address to send out malicious communications.

So, who was the woman who had telephoned my female friend’s ex-husband? Was that Serenwyl? Or was that some other lady? Perhaps a hired-help anti or sab recruited by Chris Roberts to spread more poison? We looked through Chris’ social media friends and the sab database (really not that large a list at all by the way) and we found a few likely candidates but this was a sideshow and we soon abandoned the search.

Then a researcher pointed out that, without a doubt, Serenwyl Roberts, who had signed up as a Director to the same firm Chris Roberts had worked for, and featured on land registry documents as the sole owner of the house in Wales in which he lived, did not exist.

I repeat. Serenwyl Roberts was not discoverable on ANY key records. Serenwyl Roberts was not a witch – she was a phantom.

Yes, Serenwyl was on the land registry documents for the house in Rhymney…

Yes, Serenwyl shared the same address in Herefordshire as Chris Roberts when he went bankrupt in 2011…

Yes, Serenwyl existed on bottom rung housing and government agency records and the date of birth listed on Companies House for her appeared on other databases, but she was never officially born, schooled or married. ‘Serenwyl’ appeared out of nowhere in the noughties. There was no birth certificate, no marriage certificate, no maiden name, no background that could be verified at all.

So then we looked at the timing of Chris Roberts’ bankruptcy, when he moved away from Gloucester to Herefordshire for a while, then to Wales. Could he have created Serenwyl out of nothing, or from his ex wife’s paperwork, in a desperate attempt to hide monies from the Official Receiver? To keep a roof over his head? Had Chris colluded with Erdmute/Eddie perhaps?

Was it perhaps his writing on the 288a Director form and change of office form from Companies House that Serenwyl Roberts signed?

Then the necklace came up.

So often it’s the little details that expose the Truth …

Look at Chris Roberts’ beloved Serenwyl (‘Sarah’ again in this tweet) feeling blessed in June 2016 at how her darling Chris has bought her a necklace, even though the box looks old and tatty. The same Serenwyl / Sair / Sarah / Seri / Pillory / Rhosier who he claims he married in a Wicca ceremony…

But when asked to show his sweet Serenwyl posing in the necklace, all he has to offer is a black and white photo of his ex, Erdmute, wearing it back in the (judging by the haircut) 1980’s! A BOGOF deal perhaps?!

The ‘Alpha Male’ Chris Roberts doesn’t look so alpha now … his behaviour seems more like that of a schoolboy bullshitting to his classmates that he has a girlfriend who does not actually exist.

What a complicated web!

Chris Roberts was fast emerging as the most likely person to be Serenwyl (and all the other virtual characters who had been created and weaponised over the years). His neighbours confirmed he was residing in Rhymney where the IP address emanated from. There were no known sightings of any women residing at the house there.

Was Chris Roberts the witch that had been trolling and abusing me?

We then conducted a stylometry test (authorship analysis) on all of Pillory Redux’ tweets, on SR’s threatening notes, on all the tweets and social media posts related to the abuse of Madeleine McCann’s parents, and on all the Packham-supporting troll accounts which had attacked the three defendants in the civil defamation case we were (and are currently still) engaged in. And, on examining all the evidence, it was concluded that Chris Roberts was Serenwyl.

The turns of phrase associated with Chris Roberts were exactly the same as Serenwyl’s. The sock puppet chats all linked to the same user. Manipulative Chris had been this woman for years, likely roping in female antis to make any telephone calls for Serenwyl whenever he asked. They were oblivious to his antics or his complete lack of care for anti-hunting, veganism or anything that they believed in and fought for.

When, finally, the penny dropped that Chris was Serenwyl, our team of researchers took a collective deep breath. For we knew then we were about to expose a man who was flying by the seat of his pants/witch knickers, who had gotten into all kinds of criminal behaviour, first in fabricating a story and then in defending it. There were lies everywhere. Looking back over all the screenshots we could see where Chris had let his guard down and where he was so clearly toying with the outside world.

Anti-authority figures can sometimes get too cocky.

At one point Chris had engaged in a conversation with Serenwyl (himself) about benefits fraud. Was this a guy who thought himself just too clever to ever be caught?

We contacted the benefits office to find out what benefits were heading to Serenwyl’s address in Rhymney, where a brand new Motability Scheme (disabled) vehicle was seen parked nearby. We also enquired as to what benefits were heading to Eddie’s home in Gloucester. We filled in the required forms detailing our suspicions, alerted the Official Receiver (being dishonest to the Official Receiver about assets is illegal – ask Boris Becker) and, when we were ready, only very recently, we engaged the police.

We felt that here was a man who wanted to be caught. At 70. Maybe he sought penance? Maybe he was just tired of lying? Perhaps, after hurting so many people, he was beginning to feel remorse?

At this stage we should point out that we discovered no suspicious behaviour linked to Eddie Roberts. Indeed, having gone bankrupt in 2011 …

Erdmute/Eddie entered an individual voluntary arrangement on the 7th April this year, so seems hardly rolling in funds. Her care for animals seems genuine and she has some very happy pet-sitting clients who are genuinely very fond of her.

When the penny dropped that the perpetrator was Chris, certainly everything started to click and add up. Whereas before we had hit brick walls, now we could see Chris Roberts pulling strings and shapeshifting over the years. The fear was gone. Most of his trolling was projection. His skilful delivery of threats came from years of playing with targets, seeing how they reacted. The overtly sexual nature of the terminology chosen by him in an attempt to shock his victims betrayed a dark past, which it is not our place to dwell on here but a place that those who offer him help in the future would be wise to probe.

All we could do was to continue to try to dig up all that we could on Chris Roberts. To remove him from society. Surely we had uncovered the most proactive 70-year-old troll in the world. In our opinion, having witnessed his work first hand, we were investigating one of the evillest men around. A man who drove others to such depths of anxiety that they considered suicide to be their only exit.

What was driving this man who in the past had complained of being abused as a child, who boasted of knowing the murderer Fred West (who used to bury his victims’ bodies in a field in Herefordshire)? Who was this man whose tweets and direct messages were either so threatening or highly sexualised? What possessed him to claim black magic as his expertise? What made this foul human being tick?

I wanted to know everything.

Serenwyl’s (Chris’) abuse was continuing. His Twitter accounts were suspended but he continues an account TODAY. If anything, the abuse was scaling up, despite the cease & desist, despite complaints to multiple police forces.

I wanted Chris Roberts 1) exposed 2) stopped and 3) potted by the police.

Some warned me not to go there.

No.

After what this man had put me and my family through, this had become personal. I could stay objective but this was a fight I’d now win, with the help of our brilliant team.

The way to right wrongs is to shine the light of Truth on them. And this magazine which Jamie and I created had come to shine a fear-busting spotlight of unparalleled lumens.

Mr Roberts, we are not done yet.

The final part, Part III, is now available HERE.

Dominic Wightman is Editor of Country Squire Magazine.