by Zach Shaw | Dec 18, 2013 | Crime, News, Updates
Last month, Lostprophets vocalist Ian Watkins pleaded guilty to 13 of the child sex offenses, including the attempted rape of a baby. Now comes word that Watkins will be in prison for a very long time, as he’s been sentence to 35 years for those charges. Watkins and...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 1, 2013 | Updates
Two months ago, the members of Lostprophets released a statement saying that they would no longer continue on with the band due to the child sex allegations of their frontman, Ian Watkins, who’d been being held in prison since last December awaiting trial. With...
by Bram Teitelman | Nov 26, 2013 | Crime
On the eve of his trial, Lostprophets vocalist Ian Watkins has pleaded guilty to 13 of the child sex offenses he’d been charged with, including the attempted rape of a baby, the BBC reports. This is an abrupt change, since he’d previously denied all of the...
by Metal Insider | Oct 1, 2013 | Crime
It was only a matter of time before Lostprophets would be forced to make a decision on the fate of their band, but they are not awaiting the outcome of frontman Ian Watkins’ sex abuse trial to do so. The band announced today via Facebook that they are calling it...
by Metal Insider | Aug 13, 2013 | Crime
Lostprophets’ singer Ian Watkins has been put on strict suicide watch as he awaits trial in Wales for 24 sex offense charges including the alleged rape of a 12-month old baby, according to the Irish Independent. During a pre-trial today, Watkins’ defense...