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Shellback Squid

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Sat Oct 11, 2025, 07:06 PM Saturday

Ian Watkins, convicted paedophile and former Lostprophets singer, killed [View all]

https://www.nme.com/news/music/ian-watkins-convicted-paedophile-and-former-lostprophets-singer-killed-in-prison-attack-3898658


“At 9.39am this morning (Saturday), police were called by staff at HMP Wakefield reporting an assault on a prisoner,” a police statement said. “Emergency services attended and the man was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. Detectives from the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team are investigating and inquiries remain ongoing at the scene.”


Watkins was serving a 29-year sentence, with a further six years on license. He pleaded guilty to 13 sex offences in 2013, including the attempted rape of a baby, 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.

Very Much a POS
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