How flower-loving school girl turned into ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ sadistic killer who punched and kicked gay doctor to death
A “JEKYLL and Hyde” teen who murdered a doctor in a homophobic attack was once a “sweet” schoolgirl who turned sadistic, neighbours say.
Dionne Timms-Williams was just 16 when she helped torture dad-of-two Dr Gary Jenkins, 54, to death as he begged her to stop.
Now locals in the village of Creigiau where she grew up have revealed how her innocent demeanour switched when she reportedly started taking drugs.
One neighbour told The Sun Online: “She used to make decorations out of wild flowers and sell them for charity.
“She was sweet and pretty growing up and never any trouble – it’s hard to believe what’s happened.”
The resident said Timms-Williams’ “law-abiding” parents must both be “devastated”.
They added: “It’s hard to imagine Dionne was capable of such a terrible thing but she had gone off the rails over the last couple of years.
“She was like Jekyll and Hyde, there was a huge change in her.
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“I think most people in the village knew she was messing with about with drugs. She could look very vacant at times.”
The tearaway teen attended Radyr Comprehensive School before leaving with a few GCSEs and studying at a local college.
Her whitewashed three-bedroomed terraced home was put on the market last summer.
Timms-Williams is now facing life behind bars after she was yesterday found guilty of murder.
Co-defendants Jason Edwards, 25, and Lee Strickland, 36, were also found guilty of murdering Dr Jenkins in Bute Park, Cardiff.
The court was told Timms-Williams was seen laughing as she punched and kicked the consultant psychiatrist.
The brutal attack was motivated by “greed, homophobia and a straightforward liking of violence”.
‘SADISTIC’
In a harrowing 15 minute audio clip, Dr Jenkins could be heard as he was “cruelly beaten, robbed, tortured and left for dead”.
Timms-Williams could be heard yelling “money” and “now” before a slew of homophobic insults were directed at the dad-of-two.
Dr Jenkins repeatedly pleaded “why” and “please, stop it” before his pained moans grow quieter.
The teen then demanded “Get down”, “Do it all over again”, “Do it”, “Hit him again” as a male voice added: “Stamp on his head. Stamp on his head too.”
At one stage, passer-by attempts to intervene but is then assaulted.
The girl says: “Yeah, I needed that.”
Bystander Louis Williams, who bravely fought back to the stop the attack, described the girl as “f***ing evil and sadistic”.
Dr Jenkins, who lived alone in Cardiff after separating from his wife six years earlier, was taken to hospital but died two weeks later.
Prosecutor Dafydd Enoch QC described the teenager as a “very troubled young woman”.
He said: “We ask you not to make the mistake in this case of assuming that 16-year-old was some sort of wilting flower caught up in something that was not of her making.
“The reality is a million miles from that scenario. For her to have acted in that way she must be a very troubled young woman.
“She was loud and confident and was laughing during the attack. It was torture, pure and simple.”
All three will be sentenced on March 25.