The Beast of Jersey
By: by his wife, Joan Paisnel.
Publisher: Hale; The Crowood Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Paisnel, Edward John Louis, 1925-
Description: The incredible story of the man who terrorised the island for eleven years.
Edward Paisnel, the son of wealthy Jersey landowners, was a Jekyll and Hyde who terrorised the island for eleven years, and in 1971 he was convicted of thirteen sex offences against young children.
Paisnel was obsessed with the powers of evil. In his Hyde moments he wore a hideous rubber mask and nail-studded bracelets. And at home he had a secret room filled with the ritual tools of Black Magic.
But, from his second wife, Joan Paisnel, we learn of the Jekyll side of his character. To her, he was a kind generous man who loved small children.
Yet for his offences against children he was sentenced to thirty years.