possessing a phone behind bars<\/a>, and described his fellow inmates as \u201cmurderers, mass murderers, rapists, paedophiles, serial killers \u2013 the worst of the worst\u201d. <\/p>\nA statement from West Yorkshire Police said: \u201cAt 9.39am this morning (Saturday), police were called by staff at HMP Wakefield reporting an assault on a prisoner.<\/p>\n
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Watkins pictured performing at the Reading Festival prior to his convictions (PA)<\/p>\n
\u201cEmergency services attended and the man was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.<\/p>\n
\u201cDetectives from the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team are investigating and inquiries remain ongoing at the scene.\u201d <\/p>\n
A Prison Service spokesperson said: \u201cWe are aware of an incident at HMP Wakefield which took place this morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are unable to comment further while the police investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2014 Watkins was told he could not appeal against the length of his 29-year jail term.<\/p>\n
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Watkins was jailed for 29 years in December 2013 (PA)<\/p>\n
Lawyers for Watkins claimed he should have his jail term cut because his last-minute guilty plea spared a jury from having to watch his home-made child pornography.<\/p>\n
However the Court of Appeal, sitting in Cardiff, turned down his application for leave for an appeal, with presiding judge Lord Justice Pitchford saying: \u201cThese were offences against infant children of such shocking depravity that a very lengthy sentence of imprisonment was demanded.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not demonstrated the total sentence of 29 years together with the extended licence period was arguably manifestly excessive. Accordingly, the application in his case is refused.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among the disturbing videos due to be shown at his trial included his attempted rape of a baby and a webcam chat in which he instructed a fan to abuse her child.<\/p>\n
Watkins was given 14- and 15-year consecutive prison terms for engaging in sexual activity with a child and the attempted rape of an 11-month-old baby.<\/p>\n
He was also convicted of 11 other offences \u2013 with those sentences running alongside his 29-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-491680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115357051339355379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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