According to a published report by Lambgoat, Former Lost Prophets frontman Ian Watkins was murdered in prison on October 10th. The 48-year-old was serving a 35-year sentence at Wakefield Prison for multiple child sex offenses, including the attempted rape of a baby. According to The Sun, Watkins was ambushed and fatally stabbed in the neck by another inmate, who has since been identified. Despite guards responding quickly and Watkins being airlifted to a hospital, he died from blood loss. A prison source described the scene as “really shocking and gruesome.”
The Sun claims a source has come forward and described the attack, sharing:
Watkins has been killed in the most brutal way possible – and the attack was shocking, even by prison standards. He was targeted by another inmate who shanked him in the neck. Guards were nearby and raced to the scene pretty quickly – but there was nothing they could do, and they could not save him.
It was a horrific scene, blood everywhere and alarms and sirens going off. Police and ambulances were called and the whole prison was locked down with all cons confined to their cells. Watkins was air-lifted to hospital but they could not save him.
He has been attacked a few times inside Wakefield over the last few years, so perhaps this was just a matter of time. The bloke who got him this time went for his jugular and it looks like a pre-planned attack.
Watkins was obviously high-profile and in for the most disgusting crimes. So that meant he was walking around with a target on his back, and this has happened. Despite who he was, it was really shocking and gruesome. Experienced officers and a lot of the other prisoners were in absolute shock after what happened and a lot of them saw the awful scene.
The inmate who attacked him used a ‘shank’ knife and he was apprehended pretty quickly. There was not much doubt about who had done it.
