{"id":207600,"date":"2025-10-12T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/207600\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:52:09","slug":"rocker-convicted-pedophile-ian-watkins-dies-in-prison-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/207600\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocker, convicted pedophile Ian Watkins dies in prison attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oct. 11 (UPI) &#8212; Welsh musician and convicted pedophile Ian Watkins was killed in a prison attack in Yorkshire, England on Saturday. He was 48.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/uk\/lostprophets-ian-watkins-dies-prison-attack-b1252444.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The London Evening Standard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The London Evening Standard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lostprophets-singer-ian-watkins-dead-prison-attack-1235445522\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rolling Stone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rolling Stone<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/10\/11\/ian-watkins-dead-stabbed-prison-lostprophets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TMZ;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TMZ<\/a> said the former Lostprophets singer was<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/h32AvKNdGSs?si=k1YamdOcCv5PaIAK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:stabbed to death;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> stabbed to death<\/a> in the facility where he has been serving a 29-year sentence for 13 child sex offenses, including the attempted rape of a fan&#8217;s baby, as well as the creation and possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watkins was pronounced dead at the scene and the incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He had been behind bars since 2013 when he pleaded guilty to an array of charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Entertainment_News\/Music\/2013\/12\/18\/Ian-Watkins-sentenced-to-35-years-in-prison-for-child-sex-abuse\/UPI-83981387381266\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he insisted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he insisted<\/a> he was a drug addict with no recollection of the acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 11 (UPI) &#8212; Welsh musician and convicted pedophile Ian Watkins was killed in a prison attack in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,101319,588,75,101318,10053,12279,57060],"class_list":["post-207600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-child-sex-offences","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-ian-watkins","tag-rolling-stone","tag-tmz","tag-yorkshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}