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LONDON — LONDON (AP) \u2014 British police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder after the former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins<\/a> was stabbed to death at a prison in northern England, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offenses.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire on Saturday morning after Watkins, 48, was attacked with a knife. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

A murder investigation is underway following the arrests of two men, aged 25 and 43, West Yorkshire Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Watkins pleaded guilty to 13 charges, including trying to rape a baby, sexually touching a 1-year-old, encouraging a fan to abuse her child and making child pornography.<\/p>\n

At the time of his sentencing, Judge John Royce called Watkins a manipulative and dangerous sexual predator who had abused his fame to help satisfy his \u201cinsatiable lust.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who have appeared in these courts over many years see a large number of horrific cases,\u201d Royce said in sentencing at Cardiff Crown Court. \u201cThis case, however, breaks new ground.”<\/p>\n

Watkins was the lead singer for Lostprophets, a Welsh rock band that topped the U.K. charts in 2006 with its third album, \u201cLiberation Transmission.” The band announced it was disbanding after Watkins\u2019 arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON — LONDON (AP) \u2014 British police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder after the former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85017,233,924,96,59,232,57,58,17826,28150,18584,14994,50,3492,6277,56,54,55,976,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-194711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-85017","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-greatbritain","16":"tag-homicide","17":"tag-indictments","18":"tag-law-enforcement","19":"tag-legal-proceedings","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-prisons","22":"tag-sexual-assault","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-unitedkingdom","26":"tag-violence","27":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}