Ian Watkins, the previous singer of the Welsh scene steel band Lostprophets, has been murdered in jail after being attacked with a knife. He was serving a 29-year jail time period for a number of horrific sexual offenses. He was killed this morning at West Yorkshire’s HMP Wakefield and was pronounced lifeless on the scene on the age of 48.
Detectives from the murder and main inquiry group are investigating the scenario in accordance with West Yorkshire Police. In 2023, Watkins was stabbed in the identical jail and suffered non life-threatening accidents after allegedly being held hostage by three different inmates. 5 years earlier Watkins had ten months added to his sentence after being discovered with a cellphone.
In 2013 Watkins pleaded responsible to a string of sexual assaults of kids underneath 13, in addition to making or possessing indecent photos of kids and an excessive pornographic picture involving a intercourse act on an animal. His crimes included the tried rape of no less than one child. The day after his plea was accepted, the incarcerated Watkins was recorded referring to his crimes as “mega lolz” in a cellphone name to a feminine fan.
The disgraced musician was sentenced together with two co-defendants, the moms of two of the youngsters he abused, and Excessive Courtroom Choose John Royce famous that their actions “plunged into new depths of depravity.”
