Ian Watkins, the singer of the former Welsh band Lostprophets, convicted of child sexual abuse, has died after being attacked in a prison in the UK, the Guardian reports.
He was attacked with a knife by another prisoner, sources confirmed to the PA news agency.
Watkins (48) was serving a 29-year sentence at HMP Wakefield, with an additional six years of supervised release, after admitting a string of sex crimes, including the attempted rape of a baby.
He was arrested on September 21, 2012, after a search warrant was executed at his home on suspicion of drugs, during which a large number of computers, mobile phones and data storage devices were seized.
West Yorkshire Police said detectives from the Homicide and Serious Crime Investigation Team were investigating after prison staff reported an attack on a prisoner, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
A prison service spokesman said they could not comment while the police investigation was ongoing.
Watkins was stabbed in the same prison in 2023, suffering non-life-threatening injuries, after he was allegedly held hostage by three inmates for six hours before guards freed him.
At sentencing at Cardiff Crown Court, the judge handed him an extended sentence, saying his crimes had “reached new depths of depravity”.
After being caught with a cell phone in prison in 2019, he told the court he was surrounded by "murderers, mass murderers, rapists, pedophiles, serial killers - the worst of the worst."
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