Former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in HMP Wakefield.<\/p>\n
The paedophile rock star was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offences.<\/p>\n
He was attacked with a knife on Saturday morning, sources have confirmed.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were sent to the prison in West Yorkshire but Watkins was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Watkins, 48, was jailed for 29 years in December 2013 with a further six years on licence, after admitting a string of sex offences \u2013 including the attempted rape of a fan\u2019s baby.<\/p>\n
Emergency services attended and the man was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later<\/p>\n
West Yorkshire Police<\/p>\n
The disgraced singer was arrested following the execution of a drugs warrant at his Pontypridd home on September 21st, 2012, when a large number of computers, mobile phones and storage devices were seized.<\/p>\n
Analysis of the equipment uncovered Watkins\u2019 depraved behaviour.<\/p>\n
A Prison Service spokesperson said: \u201cWe are aware of an incident at HMP Wakefield which took place this morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are unable to comment further while the police investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said: \u201cAt 9.39am this morning, police were called by staff at HMP Wakefield reporting an assault on a prisoner.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmergency services attended and the man was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.<\/p>\n
\u201cDetectives from the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team are investigating and inquiries remain ongoing at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can call the national 24-hour Rape Crisis Helpline at 1800-77 8888, access text service and webchat options at drcc.ie\/services\/helpline\/ or visit Rape Crisis Help.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in HMP Wakefield. The paedophile rock star was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-74444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}