{"id":5876,"date":"2025-10-11T19:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ian-watkins-death-lostprophets-singer-stabbed-prison-attack-1236087503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:20:47","slug":"ian-watkins-death-lostprophets-singer-stabbed-prison-attack-1236087503","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ian-watkins-death-lostprophets-singer-stabbed-prison-attack-1236087503\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins Killed in Prison\u00a0Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tIan Watkins, the former lead singer of rock band Lostprophets and a convicted pedophile, was killed in a prison attack in the United Kingdom. He was 48.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatkins died on Saturday (Oct. 11) after being stabbed by another inmate at HMP Wakefield, a high-security prison in West Yorkshire, according to multiple U.K. news outlets.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt 9.39am this morning (Saturday), police were called by staff at HMP Wakefield reporting an assault on a prisoner,\u201d West Yorkshire Police said in a statement, per Reuters<\/em><\/a>. \u201cEmergency services attended and the man was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough the statement did not name Watkins, Sky News<\/a> reported that he was attacked with a knife. The Sun<\/a><\/em> claimed his throat was slashed after inmates were released from their cells that morning. Further details about the incident had not yet been revealed at press time.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis was not the first time Watkins was assaulted in prison. In August 2023, he was attacked by three inmates and sustained neck injuries that required medical attention.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatkins was serving a 29-year sentence following his 2013 conviction<\/a> on numerous child sex offenses. He pleaded guilty to 13 charges, including the attempted rape of a baby. At sentencing, the judge described Watkins\u2019 actions as having \u201cplumbed new depths of depravity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLostprophets formed in 1997 and achieved success in the 2000s, including a chart-topping U.K. album, Liberation Transmission<\/em>, in 2006, and a No. 1 hit on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Alternative Songs chart with \u201cLast Train Home\u201d in 2004. Their final album, Weapons<\/em>, was released in 2012, shortly before Watkins\u2019 arrest<\/a>. The band disbanded shortly afterward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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