- Ian Watkins, Disgraced Lostprophets Frontman, Attacked in Prison
- Inmate Hostage Incident at HMP Wakefield
- Watkins’ Infamous Crimes and Imprisonment Details
The disgraced performer has served ten years of his 29-year sentence for a series of sex offenses.
Disgraced Ian Watkins, frontman for the band Lostprophets, has been attacked in prison.
The 46-year-old is serving a 29-year prison sentence for multiple sexual offenses, including offenses against infants and young children.
The pedophile sustained non-life-threatening injuries after an incident at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
On Saturday morning, he was purportedly taken hostage by three other inmates and released by prison officers six hours later.
A Prison Service spokesperson stated, “Police are investigating an incident that occurred at HMP Wakefield on Saturday.”
“We are unable to comment further while the police investigate.”
Watkins was sentenced in December 2013 after pleading guilty to 13 sex crimes, including the attempted rape of a fan’s infant.
During a webcam conversation, he also encouraged a second fan to abuse her child and hid child pornographic videos, some of which he had created himself.
The police described him at the time as a “committed, organized pedophile.”
In September 2012, Watkins was arrested after his Pontypridd residence was searched based on a drug warrant. Watkins gained fame for his role in Lostprophets.
During the inspection, numerous computers, mobile phones, and storage devices were seized.
When the singer was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court, he was given a lengthy sentence, and the judge stated that his crimes “reached new depths of depravity.”
Watkins will be imprisoned for two-thirds of his sentence before being released. He will receive an additional six years of probation.
In 2019, he told a court that he was incarcerated with “murderers, mass murderers, rapists, pedophiles, serial killers – the worst of the worst” after being discovered with a cell phone behind bars.
