Ian Watkins

Watkins in 2010

Ian David Karslake Watkins (30 July 1977 – 11 October 2025) was a convicted Welsh child sex offender and former lead singer of the rock band Lostprophets. Watkins was fatally stabbed in Wakefield Prison while serving his sentence.

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

• If u belong to me so does ur baby [sic]
  • Communication with accomplice “P” [1]

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 [2]

• 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 [3]

• Not only did [Watkins] take 15 years' [work] away from me, but he took away my future as well […] even though the band was starting to decline, we could have gone away for a couple of years and then come back with the hope that people might give a shit. So we thought about calling it a day for a bit and then returning and going on the road and playing all our greatest hits until we were dead. That was the retirement plan, but that's all gone now.
  • Stuart Richardson [4]

• Those who have appeared in these Courts at the Bar or on the Bench over many years see and hear a large number of horrific cases. This case however breaks new ground. Any decent person looking at and listening to the material here will experience shock; revulsion; anger and incredulity. What you three did plumbed new depths of depravity. You [Watkins] achieved fame and success as the lead singer of the [sic] Lostprophets. You had many fawning fans. That gave you power. You knew you could use that power to induce young female fans to help satisfy your apparently insatiable lust and to take part in the sexual abuse of their young children. Away from the highlights of your public performances lay a dark and sinister side.
• The planning and graphic detail are bad enough. The videoing of what you were both doing is an aggravating factor. The enjoyment both of you can be seen to derive from what you were doing is both sickening and incomprehensible.
• There is one further matter of concern. One of the passwords you chose, which needed the assistance of GCHQ to break was I FUK KIDZ.
  • John Royce, on the crimes of Watkins and his accomplices [5]