Rather Dead Than Red

"Starting way back at the very beginning of the rumours and recorded sightings, Highgate 'vampire' afficionado [sic] Redmond will be sharing his research with the audience, providing a vital overview of alleged phenomena around Highgate Cemetery and Swains Lane." - Farrant's Highgate Vampire Symposium publicity

Redmond McWilliams of Morden, Surrey, was not around when the Highgate Vampire was under investigation and merely repeats what his mentor Farrant tells him. He is quite obviously obsessed with the topic, having created groups and blogs which he co-administrates with Farrant. He has become Farrant's general dogsbody with no acumen for independent research. Redmond McWilliams appears in many of Farrant's amateur videos where pranks are played and people are mocked. With the aspect of a crazed psychopath, he and Farrant keep an effigy of Seán Manchester's head on a platter in the latter's London Muswell Hill bedsitting room, as shown in the photograph below.

Redmond McWilliams uses umpteen pseudonyms. These are just a handful of his sockpuppet aliases: "Vebjørn Hästehufvud" (poached from somebody else), "Arminius Vámbéry" (also poached from somebody else), "Ian Ike Flynn" (a pornographic profile), "Ferdinand Maximiliano Von Habsburg", "Arthur Saxon", "Gerard de Saxo", "Des'ree Wilson", and, more recently, "Peter Michaels" (poached from the genuine Peter Michaels). Redmond McWilliams has used some of these aliases to try and befriend Seán Manchester on Facebook for duplicitous reasons, and infiltrate groups where Seán Manchester is an administrator. He has failed to succeed in these endeavours.

Of all those invited to contribute to the Symposium by David Farrant, this effeminate and troubled character is perhaps the least qualified. He is little more than an extension to Farrant's propaganda.