Ian Watkins, former soloist of Rock Lostprophets, who was sentenced to 35 years for sexual crimes against children, was killed in prison by another prisoner, the British press reported on Saturday.
Ian Watkins, the former soloist of the British band Rock Lostprophets Photo Profimedia
Watkins, 48 years old, was sentenced to Northern England prison.
“At 9:39 am in the morning (Saturday), the police were called by HMP Wakefield staff, who reported an attack on a prisoner,” said West Yorkshire police in a statement, writes News.
“The emergency services intervened, but the man was declared dead on the spot a little later,” states the statement, without giving Watkins’ name.
According to the press, he would have had the jugular cut.
The police did not immediately respond to Reuters’s request to comment.
Watkins was convicted in 2013 after pleading guilty to 13 charges. He recognized two attempts of rape, sexual aggression on a minor under 13, complicity in sexual aggression on a minor under 13 years, conspiracy to the rape of a minor under 13 years and conspiracy to sexual aggression on another minor under 13 years. He also pleaded guilty for six charges of taking and holding indecent images with children and one to hold extreme pornographic images.
Ian Watkins, the former soloist of the British band Rock Lostprophets Photo Profimedia
The pedophile musician was hospitalized in August 2023 after being stabbed in a separate attack in prison.
Watkins (48 years old), the former soloist of a popular alternative rock band, with millions of albums sold worldwide, was sentenced in 2013 to 29 years in prison for pedophilia.
