Walter Williams | |
Full Name: | Walter Johnson Williams |
Birth Date: | 14 November 1943 |
Birth Place: | Clyne, Wales |
Death Place: | Clyne, Wales |
Position: | Prop |
Repyears1: | 1974 |
Repcaps1: | 2 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Walter Johnson Williams (14 November 1943 — 10 March 1985) was a Welsh rugby union international.[1]
Williams, a farmer from Clyne, was a prop and played his rugby for Neath RFC. He was capped twice for Wales during the 1974 Five Nations Championship, against Ireland and France, both of which ended in draws.[2]
In 1985, Williams stabbed his wife Janet to death and shot himself with a rifle in a murder–suicide in the kitchen of their Clyne family farm. He had been receiving treatment for depression since 1967 according to an inquest.[3]