Bill (William) Long - psych assessment/report - November 2013
4.6.4 He stated that he became, and persisted in being, preoccupied with the ‘idea of raping someone’. This notion, he said, persisted and he drove directly to the house of the victim, with the intention of raping her in her house - he could give no coherent account as to why this elderly lady was the focus for his sexual or violent preoccupations.
His motivation for such disclosure after 11+ years is unclear, although he maintains that he had been ruminating on declaring his guilt for some months (he claims that he self harmed in January 2013 directly in response to his anguish about disclosing his responsibility).
4.6.8 In each of my contacts/meetings with him at HMP & YOI Hollesley Bay and at HMP Wayland I have habitually reviewed our previous contact, and its content, and his previous accounts/disclosures with him.
4.6.9 His response to such reviews has sometimes prompted him to withdraw some comments/allegations he had earlier made; for example, regarding his mother. In this context he had earlier disclosed that his mother had ‘exposed herself’ to him ‘on 3 or 4 occasions’ when he was an adolescent (under 16), and that he had had sexual intercourse with his mother ‘on several occasions’ at her instigation when he had been an adolescent
4.6.10 In the process of reviewing these comments/disclosures in subsequent contacts Mr Hall had partially, and then wholly, withdrawn these, insisting that he had been lying about sexual contact with, or from, his mother
I make reference to this because this reviewing process with him of his disclosure also included particularly (and with some emphasis) his account of his motivation for the murder (and his rape thoughts) regarding Mrs Albert.
