Overview

• Prison staff alerted West Yorkshire Police at 9:39 a.m., and emergency services pronounced the inmate dead at the scene shortly after.
• Detectives from the force’s homicide and major investigation team are leading the case, with on-site inquiries continuing.
• Sources cited by PA report that another prisoner attacked Watkins with a knife, a detail authorities have not formally confirmed.
• Watkins, 48, was serving a 29-year sentence imposed in 2013 for child sexual offences, including the attempted rape of a baby.
• His conviction led to the dissolution of Lostprophets and the formation of No Devotion by former members, and he had previously been injured in a reported 2023 incident at the same prison.