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What the stabbing of Ian Watkins says about our prisons

9 August 2023

1:08 AM

9 August 2023

1:08 AM

This weekend, armed assailants tortured a prisoner and held him hostage in HMP Wakefield for six hours, before specialist prison staff stormed the cell. The prisoner was taken to hospital with stab wounds. Much has been made of the fact that he is Ian Watkins, the front man of the group Lostprophets, who was imprisoned for 29 years in 2008 for the sexual abuse of children.

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