Former Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins Killed in Prison Attack

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The convicted pedophile was serving a 29-year condemnation astatine HMP Wakefield successful England.

Ian Watkins, the erstwhile pb vocalist of stone set Lostprophets and a convicted pedophile, was killed successful a situation onslaught successful the United Kingdom. He was 48.

Watkins died connected Saturday (Oct. 11) aft reportedly being stabbed by different inmate astatine HMP Wakefield, a high-security situation successful West Yorkshire, according to aggregate U.K. quality outlets.

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“At 9.39am this greeting (Saturday), constabulary were called by unit astatine HMP Wakefield reporting an battle connected a prisoner,” West Yorkshire Police said successful a statement, per Reuters. “Emergency services attended and the antheral was pronounced dormant astatine the country a abbreviated clip later.”

Although the connection did not sanction Watkins, Sky News reported that helium was attacked with a knife. The Sun claimed his pharynx was slashed aft inmates were released from their cells that morning. Further details astir the incidental person not yet been revealed.

This was not the archetypal clip Watkins was assaulted successful prison. In August 2023, helium was attacked by 3 inmates and sustained cervix injuries that required aesculapian attention.

Watkins was serving a 29-year condemnation pursuing his 2013 conviction connected galore kid enactment offenses. He pleaded blameworthy to 13 charges, including the attempted rape of a baby, intersexual battle of a 1-year-old, encouraging a instrumentality to maltreatment her child, and producing kid pornography. At sentencing, the justice described Watkins’ actions arsenic having “plumbed caller depths of depravity.”

Lostprophets formed successful 1997 and achieved occurrence successful the 2000s, including a chart-topping U.K. album, Liberation Transmission, successful 2006, and a No. 1 deed connected Billboard’s Alternative Songs illustration with “Last Train Home” successful 2004. Their last album, Weapons, was released successful 2012, soon earlier Watkins’ arrest. The set disbanded soon afterward.