Ian Watkins: Disgraced Lostprophets frontman and convicted paedophile ‘stabbed in jail’

Disgraced Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins has been stabbed in jail, in line with reviews.

The 46-year-old is serving a 29-year jail time period for a number of sexual offences, together with critical crimes towards younger kids and infants.

According to the Mirror, the paedophile is in a “life-threatening condition” following the incident at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

The newspaper reviews he was taken hostage by three different inmates on Saturday morning and was freed by jail officers six hours later.

“There are fears he could die. If he survives, he’ll have been very lucky,” the supply instructed them.

A Prison Service spokesperson mentioned: “Police are investigating an incident which took place on Saturday at HMP Wakefield.

“We are unable to remark additional whereas the police examine.”

Watkins was sentenced in December 2013, after admitting 13 intercourse offences, together with the tried rape of a fan’s child.

He additionally inspired a second fan to abuse her youngster throughout a webcam chat and secretly stashed youngster pornography movies, a few of which he had made himself.

At the time, police described him as a “committed, organised paedophile”.

Having discovered fame in Lostprophets, Watkins was arrested after his Pontypridd residence was searched on orders of a drug warrant in September 2012.

A lot of computer systems, cellphones and storage units had been seized throughout the search.

When sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court, the singer was instructed he was being given an prolonged sentence – and a choose mentioned his crimes “plumbed new depths of depravity”.

Watkins will serve two-thirds of the time period behind bars earlier than being launched. He will serve a further six years on licence.

After being caught with a cell phone behind bars in 2019, he instructed a courtroom that he was locked up with “murderers, mass murderers, rapists, paedophiles, serial killers – the worst of the worst”.