Lostprophets’ singer Ian Watkins was killed in jail this weekend after a fellow inmate ‘ambushed’ him and stabbed him in the neck with a ‘shank’ – causing hi to die due to blood loss
Lostprophets’ paedophile Ian Watkins accurately predicted his own death after being jailed for vile sex crimes. The disgraced former star was stabbed to death in jail on Friday while in the midst of serving a 35 year sentence for his crimes.
Reports have revealed he was stabbed in the neck by a fellow inmate in an attack that was described as “pre-planned”, “shocking”, and “gruesome”. Watkins had previously survived a stabbing incident in August 2023 – and he had previously predicted he would be attacked.
In 2019, he was put on trial for secretly having a mobile phone in prison – and had his sentence increased when found guilty of breaking this rule. When the verdict was read out, the former chart-topping star explained that “known murderers” in his prison had told him to keep the phone after leaving it on his bed.
Speaking about possible repercussions following his trail over the incident, he said: “Chances are someone would sneak up behind me and cut my throat. It’s not like one-on-one. Stuff like that, you don’t see it coming.”
On Saturday, news broke that Watkins had indeed been stabbed in the neck and killed while behind bars. He was “ambushed” after inmates were released from their cells in the morning.
Watkins was stabbed in the jugular, causing him to die from blood loss. The violent scene is said to have left those that work in the prison shaken and horrified.
A source told The Sun: “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… Despite who he was, it was really shocking and gruesome.”
They added: “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.”
In 2013, the Welsh native pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court to 13 child sex offences. He also admitted to the rape and sexual assault of a child who was under the age of 13.
Watkins also admitted conspiring to rape a child, three counts of sexual assault involving children, seven involving taking, making or possessing indecent images of children and one of possessing an extreme pornographic image involving a sex act on an animal.
Sentencing Mr Justice Royce said the case broke ‘new ground’ and ‘plunged into new depths of depravity’. He said Watkins had a ‘corrupting influence’ and had shown a ‘complete lack of remorse’. He added Watkins posed a significant risk to the public in particular to women with young children.
The musician was later handed an extra 10 months after he was discovered to have a mobile phone in his possession while behind bars. During the hearing, Judge Rodney Jameson QC said: “I am very conscious of the fact you are serving a very long time and you will be well into middle age by the time you are released. The fact of the matter is if there is not an appreciable penalty for having had a mobile phone in these circumstances then of course you would draw from that the lesson you could have another one and that is not a position I would want to encourage.”
He was said to be sharing his wing with murderers, killers, rapists and paedophiles, who he described as “the worst of the worst”. Asked to describe his music career during an earlier appearance, Watkins told the court his band had sold between five and ten million records across the world between 1999 and 2012. Watkins said the Lostprophets had toured all over the world, headlining at Wembley Arena and the MEN Arena in Manchester.
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