Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins has reportedly been stabbed in jail.
The disgraced former singer is at the moment serving a 29-year sentence, with an extra six years on license, in HMP Wakefield on numerous baby intercourse offences, together with the tried rape of a child.
The Mirror studies that Watkins was attacked and brought hostage by three different inmates on Saturday morning. After he was discovered and freed by officers, he was taken to hospital.
A Jail Service spokesperson advised the outlet: “Police are investigating an incident which passed off on Saturday at HMP Wakefield. We’re unable to remark additional whereas the police examine.”
Watkins was jailed in December 2013 after pleading responsible to 13 intercourse offences at Cardiff Crown Courtroom, together with the aforementioned tried rape of a child, conspiring to rape a baby, three counts of sexual assault involving kids, seven involving taking, making or possessing indecent pictures of kids and considered one of possessing an excessive pornographic picture involving a intercourse act on an animal.
In 2019, Watkins was handed an additional 10 months on his sentence after he was discovered responsible of getting a cell phone in jail, and the court docket heard he hid the system inside his anus so jail officers wouldn’t discover it. Watkins initially denied having a three-inch GSTAR telephone in his cell.
In 2017, Watkins was reported to have been grooming a mom from his jail cell. The 21 year-old’s baby was subsequently taken into care after social companies have been alerted of her contact with the disgraced singer.
‘We’re sickened,” stated a spokesman from the NSPCC on the time. “It’s completely bewildering that he may keep on grooming. It exhibits contempt for youngsters he abused, and raises severe questions on supervision.”
On the time, it was stated that jail officers in Wakefield reportedly discovered “nothing untoward” of their exchanges through letters and emails. A spokesman from Lincolnshire police in the meantime added: “We are going to all the time take motion to safeguard weak adults and kids.”
