Ian Watkins, former Lostprophets singer and convicted pedophile, stabbed in prison.

https://nypost.com/2023/08/06/ian-watkins-former-lostprophets-singer-and-convicted-pedophile-stabbed-in-prison-report/

A pedophile Welsh rock singer who confessed to sexual offenses against young children and babies is fighting for his life after he was stabbed and held hostage by fellow inmates inside one of the harshest prisons in the UK, according to a report.

Ian Watkins, 46, the former lead singer of the now-disbanded band Lostprophets, was found stabbed in his jail cell inside His Majesty’s Prison Wakefield by the prison’s guards and rushed to a hospital in a “life-threatening condition.”

“There are fears he could die. If he survives, he’ll have been very lucky.” sources told the Mirror.

Three inmates took Watkins, 46, hostage around 9 a.m. on Saturday where he was stabbed multiple times and beaten up before prison personnel “freed” him six hours later, the outlet reported.

Watkins founded Lostprophets in 1997 until the band disbanded in 2013 when he was sentenced to jail.

Watkins was 10 years into his 29-year prison sentence for several child sex offenses, including attempted rape and sexual assault of a child under the age of 13, and possession of child pornography.