Lostprophets peed Ian Watkins ‘pays for protection’ in ‘Monster Mansion’ after attack

A prisoner has claimed that evil ex-rocker Ian Watkins is paying for protection in HMP Wakefield after he was stabbed with a “sharp toilet brush”.

Jonathan Levi and Emma French explained in their book, Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion, that harsh justice is “particularly likely” to be meted out to pedophiles in prison.

Watkins, the former lead singer of Welsh rock band Lostprophets, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries after being taken hostage in 2023. He was beaten and stabbed by three inmates at the ‘Monster Mansion’.

But it appears the convicted sex offender still has “access to money” and is “spending his time” buying both protection and friends after the attack, which is said to have topped a £900 drug debt.

One prisoner revealed to the authors: “He is hated by many but as HMP W is mixed ie VP and high level gangsters, drug importers and organized crime, they just take money from him (Watkins) for his safety “.

They continued: “He spent thousands on protection. The recent stabbing was a reminder that he must pay. Took a quantity of spice from a prisoner with a prison value of £150.

“Because he was Watkins, he was told he owed £900. It was big and refused to pay; therefore, he was stabbed in the side using a sharp toilet brush.”

The inmate explained the process behind the money exchanges, which “are easily done in prison.” A person first gets the phone numbers of the friends or family of the person they are paying.

They then give their own family numbers over the phone and the individual’s family then contacts the other family and sends the money via bank transfer.

Watkins, whom the prisoner described as “a tall thin man who dyes his thin hair black” with paint bought from the prison service, claimed the former singer was caught with a phone.

The source said: “He had paid a Liverpool gang member £1,000 to use the phone and when he was caught with it he had to pay £5,000. This is a fact; i know the guy who borrowed his phone. Watkins is on C Wing at HMP W.

“His work is education. He buys his protection and his recent stabbing was due to a drug debt. He is considered a villain among other criminals (due to his involvement in sex crimes against babies). Pay for protection.”

Despite his heinous crimes, Watkins still has “a lot of female fans” and “gets letters from a lot of women.”

The disgraced former rocker was jailed in December 2013 for a catalog of depraved child sex offences, including the attempted rape of a child.

He was sentenced to 29 years in prison and a further six years on licence, the BBC reports. According to Levi and French, Watkins could be up for parole in 2031.

However, they said his freedom depends on a “number of factors,” including whether there are any other “incidents” between now and his potential parole date.