{"id":491843,"date":"2025-10-11T20:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/491843\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:23:18","slug":"lostprophets-singer-ian-watkins-dies-after-being-attacked-in-prison-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/491843\/","title":{"rendered":"Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after being attacked in prison | UK news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The convicted child sexual abuser and former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He was attacked with a knife by another inmate on Saturday morning, sources confirmed to the PA news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 48-year-old was serving a 29-year prison sentence at HMP Wakefield, with a further six years on licence, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2013\/dec\/18\/ian-watkins-jailed-child-sex-crimes\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitting a string of sex offences<\/a> including the attempted rape of a baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He was arrested after the execution of a drugs warrant at his Pontypridd home on 21 September 2012, when a large number of computers, mobile phones and storage devices were seized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">West Yorkshire police said detectives from the homicide and major inquiry team were investigating after prison staff reported an assault on a prisoner, who was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A spokesperson for West Yorkshire police said: \u201cAt 9.39am this morning, police were called by staff at HMP Wakefield reporting an assault on a prisoner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cEmergency services attended and the man was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. Detectives from the homicide and major enquiry team are investigating and inquiries remain ongoing at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A Prison Service spokesperson said they could not comment while the police investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Watkins was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/aug\/06\/ian-watkins-singer-jailed-for-child-sex-offences-stabbed-in-prison\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously stabbed in an incident at the same prison in 2023<\/a>, suffering non-life-threatening injuries after he was reportedly taken hostage by three other inmates before being freed by prison officers six hours later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">When sentenced at Cardiff crown court, the singer was told he was being given an extended sentence \u2013 and a judge said his crimes \u201cplumbed new depths of depravity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">After being caught with a mobile phone behind bars in 2019, he told a court that he was locked up with \u201cmurderers, mass murderers, rapists, paedophiles, serial killers \u2013 the worst of the worst\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">PA Media contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The convicted child sexual abuser and former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491844,"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-491843","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\/115357404521257658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491843","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=491843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}