Ian Watkins

Watkins in 2010

Ian David Karslake Watkins (born 30 July 1977) is a convicted Welsh child sex offender and former lead singer of the rock band Lostprophets.

Quotes

• I'm going to put out a statement on the 18th just to say it was mega lolz. [sic] I do not know what everybody is getting so freaked out about.
  • Quoted in The Guardian

About

• I come off the stage, fucking livid. Go on the bus, Ian's on the bus. And I'm like 'nice one'. And he gives me some shit. And I black the fuck out and I'm laying punches into his face. I'm not fucking proud of it. But I'm laying punches into his face for 10 seconds or 10 minutes. I don't know. And I'm a big boy compared to him, so I'm not proud of this. And then he gives me this fucking look after I hit him. I had this can of Monster Energy in my hand and I smashed this fucking can into his head. And I'm like 'fuck', I go outside and puke. And for the next three weeks he's like black eyes, cut on his face and I'm like feeling fucking horrible about the whole thing. And that's what I did when he missed a show.
  • Stuart Richardson [1]

• We didn't catch our breath after the whole thing went down with [Watkins]. So I was like, well 'fuck if that's gonna be the thing that's on my fucking gravestone.' Like 'Oh, that guy was in that band with that fucking prick.' It's like, fuck that. I'm gonna do my own band immediately.
  • Stuart Richardson [2]

• Those who have appeared in these courts over many years, see here, a large number of horrific cases […] This case breaks new ground. Any decent person […] will experience shock, revulsion and incredulity.
  • John Royce, on Watkins’s crimes [3]