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Ian Watkins Dead

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Americano75 · 11/10/2025 17:25

Gosh, how sad. (100% sarcastic)

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ian-watkins-dead-lostprophets-paedophile-36052854

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Butchyrestingface · 11/10/2025 22:20

EvieBB · 11/10/2025 22:15

So it's clear your initial opening comment wasn't obviously sarcastic and therefore (understandly) misunderstood.

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I think you would have to be fairly hard-of-thinking to be unable to work out from context the unlikehood of a poster coming onto a parenting website to seriously mourn the demise of an unrepentant paedophile.

If anything, the OP was somewhat naive in not realising just quite how obtuse some people can be. Lesson learned, no doubt.

Livelovebehappy · 11/10/2025 22:20

CountryQueen · 11/10/2025 20:22

Because they exist side by side in many prisons without issue more often than not. As I’ve explained.

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Sorry. Thats bollocks. They have vulnerable prisoner units where prisoners are segregated if sexual crimes or crimes against children. They don’t need to request this, but they’d stupid not to for obvious reasons….

teees · 11/10/2025 22:20

littlbrowndog · 11/10/2025 22:04

I think what is important that the police were told over a number of years what this man was capable off and what he wanted to do to small children

they refused to believe the woman who told them over and over in long period of time

it’s very jimmy saville. He was a famous pop star and she was a deluded fan

the babies could have not have the rape inflicted on them if the police had done their job

I think your last sentence is wildly incorrect. What exactly are the police able to do with the information ‘IW wants to commit X/Y/Z crime’? The job of the police didn’t extend to arresting people before they commit an offence.

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Americano75 · 11/10/2025 22:16

EvieBB · 11/10/2025 22:15

So it's clear your initial opening comment wasn't obviously sarcastic and therefore (understandly) misunderstood.

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Well no, because plenty more managed to fathom it. It's on you that you couldn't.

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miraxxx · 11/10/2025 22:16

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 11/10/2025 17:55

Unbelievably there were TWO separate female fans who arranged that he could rape their children, one of whom was a baby. They were both sentenced to prison, I think for about 15 years?

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And let's not forget the women who sent him loveletters while he was in prison.

EvieBB · 11/10/2025 22:15

Americano75 · 11/10/2025 22:12

I'm losing count now.

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So it's clear your initial opening comment wasn't obviously sarcastic and therefore (understandly) misunderstood.

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Americano75 · 11/10/2025 22:13

ThatDreamyLemonBiscuit · 11/10/2025 22:13

I'm still tallying...

5, 6, 7, 8...

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I see what you did there and I applaud you. 😆

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EvieBB · 11/10/2025 22:13

BatchCookBabe · 11/10/2025 21:45

I think the OP (and a few others) have made it clear it was sarcasm now though! Smile

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Yes they have now (but I responded immediately to their first comment)

ThatDreamyLemonBiscuit · 11/10/2025 22:13

Americano75 · 11/10/2025 22:12

I'm losing count now.

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I'm still tallying...

5, 6, 7, 8...

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Americano75 · 11/10/2025 22:12

Willyoujust · 11/10/2025 22:11

What is sad about a pedophile that raped little girls being stabbed to death?

I'm losing count now.

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Willyoujust · 11/10/2025 22:11

What is sad about a pedophile that raped little girls being stabbed to death?

AdoraBell · 11/10/2025 22:10

Good.

Kimura · 11/10/2025 22:09

ThatDreamyLemonBiscuit · 11/10/2025 21:15

That was, indeed, the joke.

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Sorry, it's been a long day 😭

Ratafia · 11/10/2025 22:09

ChamelalaBingBong · 11/10/2025 21:35

MNHQ unsure why some of my posts have been deleted?

Try reading the rules?

ThePieceHall · 11/10/2025 22:09

I have just read the sentencing report. I am not a violent or vengeful person. I sincerely hope that Watkins’ eyeballs were pierced during his murder. This is the worst punishment I can think of. How can such a revolting piece of filth live amongst us in plain sight?

Hellogoodbyehowdoyoudo · 11/10/2025 22:07

Vile vile. I used to love lost prophets, they had their lives made up. And he ruined their lives. Whilst being a paedo and ruining more lives. Vile.

Glad he's dead.

Butchyrestingface · 11/10/2025 22:07

thenightsky · 11/10/2025 22:02

Yes, I suspect he was killed for unpaid debts. Not an execution for his crimes outside prison. But good outcome anyway.

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Ironically, he'll be back in funds again posthumously if tradition prevails and people start downloading his stuff like toilet rolls flying off the shelves during Lockdown.

I don't have any issue with the other band members profiting or, indeed, his surviving family. Am sure his family suffered plenty by dint of association.

What's the scope for IW's victims being able to sue his estate when they come of age? Will it be outside of some statute of limitation or another?

PurpleAxe · 11/10/2025 22:07

AInightingale · 11/10/2025 17:58

If you're glad this happened to Ian Watkins, are you also in favour of capital punishment? Because you really can't be of the 'hope they turned a blind eye' brigade and also oppose the death penalty, can you? Or is murdering a monster okay if a prisoner did it? I'm also reminded of David Blunkett's comments about cracking open the champagne when Shipman killed himself. We should just be honest and say that none of these bastards deserve to live.

My only objection to capital punishment is that I dont trust the State to administer it.

Otherwise, there are absolutely crimes for which death is an appropriate punishment, or for which it is best to just put the person down because society should not have to tolerate them/they are too dangerousto have around.

Raping a baby meets that threshold easily.

Sometimes the garbage takes itself out.

littlbrowndog · 11/10/2025 22:06

thenightsky · 11/10/2025 22:05

OMG. I didn't know this.

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There is a report on bbc website about this

grim reading

thenightsky · 11/10/2025 22:05

littlbrowndog · 11/10/2025 22:04

I think what is important that the police were told over a number of years what this man was capable off and what he wanted to do to small children

they refused to believe the woman who told them over and over in long period of time

it’s very jimmy saville. He was a famous pop star and she was a deluded fan

the babies could have not have the rape inflicted on them if the police had done their job

OMG. I didn't know this.

Ratafia · 11/10/2025 22:05

ThatDreamyLemonBiscuit · 11/10/2025 21:45

Can't believe we have Ian Watkins Truthers now - a man of whom there was reportedly a wealth of photographic and video evidence showing him participating in his crimes, as well as a wealth of witness evidence, and who ultimately plead guilty and then made light of his crimes.

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Don't be silly. Pointing out that Watkins may have been killed for reasons other than other scum criminals having a loathing of paedophiles does not make anyone a truther. Much as you'd love to think he was killed to avenge his victims, it's at least possible he was killed for other reasons such as owing the wrong person money and failing to pay.

Dillydollydingdong · 11/10/2025 22:05

Hurray!!! 🙌

littlbrowndog · 11/10/2025 22:04

I think what is important that the police were told over a number of years what this man was capable off and what he wanted to do to small children

they refused to believe the woman who told them over and over in long period of time

it’s very jimmy saville. He was a famous pop star and she was a deluded fan

the babies could have not have the rape inflicted on them if the police had done their job

IDontHateRainbows · 11/10/2025 22:03

Spooky2000 · 11/10/2025 22:00

Yeah, but his estate will still get it!

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Well so fucking what? I always feel sorry for the family of people like Watkins who get tainted with the crime fof the rest of their lives. Having read about the effects of the moors murders on MH sister and mother, who effectively became recluses in the aftermath, for example.
Its not the family 's fault this happened.

Butchyrestingface · 11/10/2025 22:03

Ratafia · 11/10/2025 21:58

The lag who did it was almost certainly another sex offender, given that Watkins would not have been on the general wing. Do you really want to celebrate sex offenders and murderers?

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Feels a bit bloodless but I suppose one could celebrate it from the point of view of 'killing two birds with one stone'. One sex offender/murderer offing another means 1) one problem permanently disposed of and 2) the other one has vastly reduced his chances of being freed to roam the streets again.