Richard William is a character appearing in the episode The Sword of Guillaume of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.
The last of the William line, he was injured in a argument with his boyfriend some twenty years previous to the events of the episode. He was shoved, fell, and struck his head on a rock, the injury robbed him of speech and motor skills. The Brighton police, where the event took place, called it a gay bashing. His mother refused such a conclusion and claimed he had been beaten by the jealous of Brighton because of who he was, and where he was from.