Overview
- Prison staff alerted West Yorkshire Police at 9:39 a.m. on Oct. 11 after an assault was reported, and Watkins was declared dead at the scene.
- Two men, aged 25 and 43, were arrested on suspicion of murder and are in police custody, according to an official statement.
- Sources cited by PA said the attack involved a knife inside the Category A facility in Wakefield, England.
- Watkins, 48, was serving a 29-year sentence handed down in 2013, with a further six years on licence, for multiple child sex offenses including the attempted rape of a baby.
- The death follows a 2023 incident in which Watkins was attacked and held hostage by fellow inmates at the same prison.