Dailystar
He was the neighbour from hell serial killer who killed five people and seriously injured three more in a shocking massacre – then planned a copycat rampage when he was freed from prison.
Gun fanatic Barry Williams opened fire on three neighbours in 1978 following a long-running dispute over noise and then killed an elderly couple at a petrol station in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
Williams, a paranoid schizophrenic, was detained indefinitely in Broadmoor after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility in March 1979 – but was released just 15 years later and given a new name of Harry Street.
In 2013, it emerged that neighbours Warren and Sharee Smith complained to police about a five-year campaign of harassment which had a chilling similarity to the dispute decades earlier.
When police raided the Williams’ home in Hazelville Road in Birmingham – which he shared with wife Beverley and teenage daughter Amy – they found six guns, a homemade bomb and more than 50 bullets.
It appeared police had raided his home just in time before he staged another horrifying massacre.
He was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
