{"id":944216,"date":"2026-05-07T17:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944216\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:08:19","slug":"as-it-happened-two-men-on-trial-over-murder-of-disgraced-lostprophets-singer-ian-watkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944216\/","title":{"rendered":"As it happened: Two men on trial over murder of disgraced Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Snitching viewed in a poor light&#8217; at HMP Wakefieldpublished at 15:04 BST<\/p>\n<p>15:04 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watkins, described in court as &#8220;a particularly notorious and high-profile prisoner&#8221;, received two notes the day before he was killed, Mr Storey tells the court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They accused him of &#8220;getting another prisoner kicked off the wing, demanding money from him and threatening violence towards him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HMP Wakefield\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/23b091f7-0dae-45cb-920b-33b108088bc9.png.webp\"  width=\"915\" height=\"506\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prosecutor says HMP Wakefield is the sort of environment where \u201cgrassing\u201d or \u201csnitching\u201d on others &#8220;is viewed in a poor light&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the wounds inflicted on Watkins &#8220;cut through his jugular vein and the surrounding muscle tissues&#8221;, the jury hears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Snitching viewed in a poor light&#8217; at HMP Wakefieldpublished at 15:04 BST 15:04 BST Watkins, described in court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-944216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116534399492071166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944216","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=944216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}