Per the BBC, former Lostprophets vocalist Ian Watkins has been killed in a prison attack at HMP Wakefield. West Yorkshire Police Department have reported they were called to the prison this morning, October 11th, regarding an assault on a fellow inmate, with the 48-year-old Watkins being pronounced dead at the scene.
Further details regarding his death are under investigation. However, The Sun report Watkins was reportedly targeted in a pre-planned attack, having been ‘shanked’ in the neck by another inmate. His jugular was reportedly slashed in the incident.
Watkins was sentenced to 35 years in prison back in 2013 on various child sex and child pornography-related charges and had been serving out his sentence at the HMP Wakefield. In the years since being sentenced, he had reportedly run into various other violent altercations with other prisoners.
