Ian Watkins, former Lostprophets singer and convicted pedophile, stabbed in prison: report

A pedophile Welsh rock singer who confessed to sexual offenses against young children and infants is combating for his life after he was stabbed and held hostage by fellow inmates inside one of many harshest prisons within the UK, in keeping with a report.

Ian Watkins, 46, the previous lead singer of the now-disbanded band Lostprophets, was discovered stabbed in his jail cell inside His Majesty’s Jail Wakefield by the jail’s guards and rushed to a hospital in a “life-threatening situation.”

“There are fears he might die. If he survives, he’ll have been very fortunate.” sources told the Mirror.

Three inmates took Watkins, 46, hostage round 9 a.m. on Saturday the place he was stabbed a number of instances and overwhelmed up earlier than jail personnel “freed” him six hours later, the outlet reported.

Watkins based Lostprophets in 1997 till the band disbanded in 2013 when he was sentenced to jail.

Watkins was 10 years into his 29-year jail sentence for a number of little one intercourse offenses, together with tried rape and sexual assault of a kid underneath the age of 13, and possession of kid pornography.

Watkins’s sexual assaults date again to a minimum of March 2007, when he videoed himself having “oral, vaginal and anal intercourse” with a 16-year-old feminine, according to court documents.

A yr later, Watkins and a unique 16-year-old feminine — who was his fan — had oral intercourse as she snorted a white powder believed to be cocaine, the paperwork learn.

Watkins’s ex-girlfriend Joanne Mjadzelics alerted police that the singer had instructed her he had given a toddler cocaine and touched the sufferer inappropriately, the Guardian reported in 2017.

Police didn’t look into the preliminary allegation and later decided there was inadequate proof for Mjadzelics’ declare, however obtained a number of complaints relating to Watkins’ habits.

Wakins’ authorized troubles started in 2012 when he was arrested 3 times for drug prices, which included possession of methamphetamines and cocaine.

After his third arrest, police searched his property and pc, the place they discovered “overwhelming proof that he was a pedophile,” in keeping with the Guardian.

Throughout his trial in November 2013, Watkins’ most heinous crimes have been revealed.

He shaped a relationship with two followers who have been moms to a 10-month-old boy and an “toddler woman” respectively and allowed Watkins’ to interact in anal and oral intercourse between March 2011 and October 2012, the sentencing remarks from December 2013 read.

Each adults ultimately pleaded responsible to conspiring to rape.

Justice John Royce, the decide who oversaw the sentencing described Watkins as a “extremely manipulative” predator.

“I’m glad that you’re a deeply corrupting affect; you’re extremely manipulative; you’re a sexual predator; you’re harmful,” Royce stated, in keeping with the trial transcript.

No less than 90 pictures have been present in Watkin’s possession displaying indecent pictures of youngsters ages starting from 2 to 14 years outdated.

HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, is an all-male high-security facility that holds as much as 750 prisoners.

The jail is nicknamed the “Monster Mansion” due to the high-profile, high-risk prisoners it has housed together with Harold Shipman, deemed probably the most prolific serial killer in fashionable historical past,” Charles Bronson the “most violent prisoner in Britain” and at the moment holding Robert Maudsley, the real-life “Hannibal the Cannibal.”