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British constabulary person arrested 2 men connected suspicion of execution aft the erstwhile Lostprophets vocalist Ian Watkins was stabbed to decease astatine a situation successful bluish England, wherever helium was serving a 29-year condemnation for kid enactment offences.
Emergency services were called to HMP Wakefield successful West Yorkshire connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) greeting aft Watkins, 48, was attacked with a knife. He was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. A execution probe is underway pursuing the arrests of 2 men, aged 25 and 43, West Yorkshire Police said successful a statement.
In 2013, Watkins pleaded blameworthy to 13 charges, including trying to rape a baby, sexually touching a 1-year-old, encouraging a instrumentality to maltreatment her kid and making kid pornography.
At the clip of his sentencing, Judge John Royce called Watkins a manipulative and unsafe intersexual predator who had abused his fame to assistance fulfill his “insatiable lust”. “Those who person appeared successful these courts implicit galore years spot a ample fig of horrific cases,” Mr. Royce said successful sentencing astatine Cardiff Crown Court. “This case, however, breaks caller ground.''
Watkins was the pb vocalist for Lostprophets, a Welsh stone set that topped the U.K. charts successful 2006 with its 3rd album, “Liberation Transmission." The set announced it was disbanding aft Watkins' arrest.
