LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested two males on suspicion of homicide after the former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was stabbed to loss of life at a jail in northern England, the place he was serving a 29-year sentence for little one intercourse offenses.
Emergency providers have been known as to HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire on Saturday morning after Watkins, 48, was attacked with a knife. He was pronounced useless on the scene.
A homicide investigation is underway following the arrests of two males, aged 25 and 43, West Yorkshire Police mentioned in an announcement.
In 2013, Watkins pleaded responsible to 13 prices, together with attempting to rape a child, sexually touching a 1-year-old, encouraging a fan to abuse her little one and making little one pornography.
On the time of his sentencing, Choose John Royce known as Watkins a manipulative and harmful sexual predator who had abused his fame to assist fulfill his “insatiable lust.”
“Those who have appeared in these courts over many years see a large number of horrific cases,” Royce mentioned in sentencing at Cardiff Crown Court docket. “This case, however, breaks new ground.″
Watkins was the lead singer for Lostprophets, a Welsh rock band that topped the U.K. charts in 2006 with its third album, “Liberation Transmission.”
The band introduced it was disbanding after Watkins’ arrest.
