Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins had a secret fiancée to whom he sent a love note the day before he was killed in prison. Disgraced rock star Watkins, 48, was serving a 35-year sentence for child sex offences in HMP Wakefield. He was pronounced dead at the prison in West Yorkshire a week ago today (October 18).
He was jailed in 2013 after committing a string of offences, including the attempted rape of a baby. When he was locked up, Watkins developed a relationship with a 30-year-old woman called Ellie (not her real name). Watkins reportedly proposed to her after telling Ellie to buy an engagement ring and wrote to her in a card that arrived at her home on the day he died.
In it he is reported by The Sun as writing: “Duchess. Didn’t think I’d forget your birthday did you. They won’t keep us apart forever. Your Duke. IW”.
Letters sent by Watkins reveal details of his life behind bars, including an attack in 2023 when three inmates reportedly stabbed him and held him hostage. At the time, police said his injuries weren’t believed to be life-threatening.
He wrote that “the whole incident” was “crazy”, claiming to have been stabbed in the neck eight times and to almost have died.
Watkins told Ellie: “I had bleeds on the brain and have permanent spinal nerve damage. The weapon went in so far it hit my spine in my neck and scrambled all the nerves.”
The sick pervert told her that “thankfully” he was “still really hot”.
In another letter, he told Ellie how he hated weekends in prison because inmates’ cells were unlocked all day, and he never knew what would happen.
He added: “That s*** happens to me on a weekend, out of nowhere, so I always have that in the back of my head”.
In a letter written this summer, Watkins said: “Feel a bit more better now just cause we locked up for the eve and it’s the only time I can relax”.
Ellie said she knew of four or five women who visited Watkins in prison and sent him letters. She added: “We were writing to each other every day. Back then, he wasn’t even nice in letters. He was just very controlling, demanding.”
Watkins also told Ellie how he would sketch other inmates in a bid to get them on side, but was always looking over his shoulder.
Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, have been charged with murder over the alleged attack on Watkins. A provisional date of May 5 has been set for the trial, which is expected to take two to three weeks.
