{"id":5870,"date":"2025-10-11T20:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ian-watkins-obit\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:26:29","slug":"ian-watkins-obit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ian-watkins-obit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lostprophets\u2019 Ian Watkins Murdered In U.K. Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-155836910-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/tag\/lostprophets\">Lostprophets<\/a>\u00a0singer Ian Watkins was murdered today (Oct. 11) at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, where he was serving a 29-year-sentence for sex offenses. Watkins, who was 48, had been in jail for the past 12 years on 13 horrific charges involving children and animals.<\/p>\n<p>According to West Yorkshire Police, Watkins was attacked with a knife by a person or persons unknown and was pronounced dead at the scene. In 2023, he suffered non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed and taken hostage by three of his fellow prisoners in an incident that took authorities six hours to resolve.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2023\/08\/former-lostprophets-singer-ian-watkins-stabbed-in-u-k-prison\/\">Former Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins Stabbed In U.K. Prison<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2014\/01\/lostprophets-ian-watkins-pedophile-appeal-sentence\/\">Lostprophets Pedophile Ian Watkins Asks for a Shorter Sentence<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2013\/12\/lostprophets-singer-sentence-29-years-jail-child-sex-crimes-ian-watkins\/\">Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins Sentenced to 35 Years in Jail for Child Sex Crimes<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Welsh rock outfit Lostprophets, which had massive U.K. albums in 2004 with\u00a0<em>Start Something<\/em>\u00a0and two years later with\u00a0<em>Liberation Transmission<\/em>, immediately broke up in the wake of Watkins\u2019 original conviction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who have appeared in these courts over many years see a large number of horrific cases,\u201d said the Hon. Mr Justice John Royce at his sentencing. \u201cThis case, however, breaks new ground. I am satisfied that you are a deeply corrupting influence, you are highly manipulative, you are a sexual predator, you are dangerous. The public and, in particular, young females need protection from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Watkins\u2019 arrest, the non-singing members of Lostprophets formed the band No Devotion with Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0Lostprophets\u00a0singer Ian Watkins was murdered today (Oct. 11) at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, where he was serving a 29-year-sentence for sex offenses. Watkins, who was 48, had been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4092,4093,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ian-watkins","category-lostprophets","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}