Overview

• Ian Watkins, 48, was pronounced dead on Saturday after an assault inside HMP Wakefield.
• West Yorkshire Police have charged fellow inmates Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, with murder.
• The pair appeared at Leeds Magistrates’ Court with no pleas entered and no bail application, and they are due at Leeds Crown Court today.
• Watkins was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offences, including the attempted rape of a baby, following charges in 2012 and sentencing in 2013.
• Accounts quoted by media describe previous attacks on Watkins and depict Wakefield as a high-security jail of over 600 inmates where sex offenders are housed alongside violent offenders in an aging, understaffed facility.