Ian Watkins was stabbed to death in prison yesterday. The disgraced former singer of the Welsh scene metal band Lostprophets was 12 years into a 29-year jail sentence he was serving for numerous pedophilic sexual offenses. (Two years ago he was stabbed in the same prison, West Yorkshire’s HMP Wakefield, but those injuries were non-life-threatening.) Two men have now been arrested in suspicion of Watkins' murder, BBC reports.
West Yorkshire Police said two men aged 25 and 43 were arrested this morning. A spokesperson for the prison was unable to comment further to BBC as the investigation unfolds. Watkins' murder came just a couple of weeks after the local chief inspector of prisons issued a report saying that violence between inmates at the facility had "increased markedly," adding: "Many prisoners told us they felt unsafe, particularly older men convicted of sexual offenses who increasingly shared the prison with a growing cohort of younger prisoners."
