{"id":493304,"date":"2025-10-12T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493304\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:04:11","slug":"uk-police-arrest-2-in-stabbing-death-of-former-lostprophets-singer-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493304\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police arrest 2 in stabbing death of former Lostprophets singer in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONDON (AP) \u2014 British police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder after the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-ea39b3afa16746a08373fd7344df506f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins<\/a> was stabbed to death at a prison in northern England, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Emergency services were called to HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire on Saturday morning after Watkins, 48, was attacked with a knife. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A murder investigation is underway following the arrests of two men, aged 25 and 43, West Yorkshire Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In 2013, Watkins pleaded guilty to 13 charges, including trying to rape a baby, sexually touching a 1-year-old, encouraging a fan to abuse her child and making child pornography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At the time of his sentencing, Judge John Royce called Watkins a manipulative and dangerous sexual predator who had abused his fame to help satisfy his \u201cinsatiable lust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThose who have appeared in these courts over many years see a large number of horrific cases,\u201d Royce said in sentencing at Cardiff Crown Court. \u201cThis case, however, breaks new ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Watkins was the lead singer for Lostprophets, a Welsh rock band that topped the U.K. charts in 2006 with its third album, \u201cLiberation Transmission.&#8221; The band announced it was disbanding after Watkins\u2019 arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 British police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder after the former Lostprophets singer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[162494,3907,748,162493,188,393,77,4179,4884,47723,2003,1144,712,34745,16,15,1764,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-493304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-162494","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-child-pornography","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-homicide","19":"tag-law-enforcement","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-scotland","22":"tag-sexual-assault","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-wales","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115360632923835012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493304","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=493304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}