UK Police Arrest Two Men in Stabbing Death of Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins

British constabulary person arrested 2 men connected suspicion of execution pursuing the fatal situation stabbing of erstwhile Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins.

Watkins, 48, was killed connected Saturday (Oct. 11) portion serving a 29-year situation condemnation astatine HMP Wakefield successful West Yorkshire, England, for a bid of kid enactment offenses.

Two antheral inmates — aged 25 and 43 — person been arrested successful transportation with the incident, according to a statement from West Yorkshire Police. A execution probe is underway, though authorities person not yet released the suspects’ identities.

Watkins had been serving his condemnation since 2013, erstwhile helium was convicted connected multiple kid enactment offenses. He pleaded blameworthy to 13 charges, including the attempted rape of a baby. At the time, the presiding justice said the lawsuit had “plumbed caller depths of depravity.”

His decease comes soon aft a study from the main inspector of prisons highlighted a crisp emergence successful unit astatine HMP Wakefield, according to the BBC. The study recovered that galore inmates, particularly older men convicted of intersexual offenses, reported feeling unsafe amid a increasing colonisation of younger prisoners.

This was not the archetypal clip Watkins was targeted down bars. In August 2023, helium was attacked by 3 chap inmates, sustaining cervix injuries that required aesculapian treatment.

Lostprophets formed successful 1997 and roseate to prominence successful the aboriginal 2000s with respective U.K. illustration hits. Their 2006 album, Liberation Transmission, topped the U.K. Albums Chart, and the 2004 azygous “Last Train Home” reached No. 1 connected Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart. The radical disbanded successful 2013 pursuing Watkins’ arrest.