🔗 Share this article Cause of Paedophile Musician's Jail Death Disclosed Police Department The disgraced rock star from Pontypridd was sentenced to 29 years in jail plus six years on extended licence Disgraced Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins died after being stabbed in the neck in an reported prison incident, an inquest has learned. Watkins, forty-eight, died on 11 October after being assaulted at HMP Wakefield, where he had been serving a 29-year jail sentence for child sex crimes including the sexual assault of a baby. The hearing, opened earlier at Wakefield Coroner's Court, was postponed pending the completion of an related murder trial. Two individuals have been accused with murder in connection to Watkins' death while two other suspects, aged 23 and 39, detained earlier this week on allegation of conspiracy to murder were returned to prison as investigations continued. Official Findings Medical Examiner Oliver Longstaff said Watkins, who was identified by his full name of Ian David Karslake Watkins during the short proceeding, had been pronounced dead at the West Yorkshire jail by an attending doctor and was formally recognized by a prison officer. Mr Longstaff said paramedics were summoned to the jail "after a report he had been attacked in the neck". The examiner said a autopsy report gave the reason of death as an wound to the neck. 'Depths of Depravity' In 2013 at Cardiff Crown Court, Watkins refuted rape but confessed to the sexual assault and abuse of a child under 13. He pleaded guilty to 13 offences, including plotting to rape a child, three counts of abuse involving children, seven involving creating, producing or holding inappropriate images of children and one of possessing an extreme image involving a sex act on an creature. Prosecutors had portrayed him as a man influenced by fame, drugs, and power who had perpetrated crimes "exceeding imagination." Mr Justice Royce said the case had broken "new ground" and "plunged into new depths of depravity". Watkins was also attacked in prison in 2023. After that incident, he was taken to medical facility with injuries which were not life-threatening. Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, were presented in court last week charged with his murder, but were not asked to enter pleas. Background of Ian Watkins? Media Archives Watkins appearing in London in 2012 Watkins was once one of Wales' most recognisable artists - the frontman of the rock band Lostprophets. The band started in Pontypridd in 1997, and distributed millions of albums across the world. They produced five studio albums, one of which achieved number one in the UK. The group also had some success in the US, with their second and third albums attaining the popular charts. They separated promptly after Watkins was convicted in 2013. His previous group members spoke openly about their surprise and revulsion. Bassist Stuart Richardson said in 2014: "Although I was completely done with him, I hoped it was all a mistake, he was not guilty, he had to be. "The first time, we knew the band was done. You can't go back from that." The other members and American singer Geoff Rickly created a new band, No Devotion, shortly thereafter.