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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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Lighteningstrikes · 11/10/2025 20:51

@neverbeenskiing
Give it a rest. Are you always so morally superior?

Why shouldn’t people rejoice in the utter vile scumbags death? In life and in death, he deserves all the hatred he gets and more.

PeonyPatch · 11/10/2025 20:51

Americano75 · 11/10/2025 20:47

I'm literally just pondering the same thing. Should they really be told? Or is the lie by omission kinder?

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My DH and I were just discussing this, and we both agreed that it’s for the best that they don’t know. I work in MH, and very few people who experience childhood sexual abuse are able to recover from it or overcome it really. It’s truly sad and inconceivably traumatic.

Whilst I won’t be popping open the champagne this evening, my thoughts truly are with the victims. I really don’t mean that as a virtue signalling post, I genuinely feel for them to be perfectly honest.

CountryQueen · 11/10/2025 20:50

SalonDesRefuses · 11/10/2025 20:49

I've just visited a prison (in a professional capacity) and sex offenders are kept separate from the rest of the prison population (HMP).

Do you work in a prison?

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Yes.

All of them? Or some of them? Because there’s a huge difference

DrowningInSyrup · 11/10/2025 20:49

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What an odd and aggressive response and you've misread the meaning of my post.

CountryQueen · 11/10/2025 20:49

BatchCookBabe · 11/10/2025 20:31

??? Confused

Missing the point much ?? MATE.

Google what NONCE stands for, and you will discover that you are in fact, wrong, with your claim that sex offenders are not at risk from other prisoners.

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Also, please tell me where I said they’re not at risk? EVERY prisoner is at risk from someone potentially. We do not house sex offenders on special units together or in solitary confinement as a rule. Try and grasp the concept of reading a post before harking back to the 1900s will you?

SalonDesRefuses · 11/10/2025 20:49

CountryQueen · 11/10/2025 20:00

Is this HMP? “Mainstream” and “protection” are not terms I’ve ever known used.

The use of these terms suggests a different service, or private? Either way, most uk prisons don’t have the structure to be able to separate by offence. Of course, vulnerable prisoners will be sometimes kept on a VP unit or in segregation.

The poster was suggesting that they are automatically segregated by offence and that the offence itself is the indicator of their vulnerability. I don’t know what prison you used to work in but practically it’s not usually possible to keep them “strictly” separated.

And if that’s what PPs believe why are they all “give that man an OBE” and “let me thank and shake hands with that man” if it’s a given he’s also a sex offender? Bizarre.

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I've just visited a prison (in a professional capacity) and sex offenders are kept separate from the rest of the prison population (HMP).

Do you work in a prison?

littlbrowndog · 11/10/2025 20:48

TheHillIsMine · 11/10/2025 18:31

Hurray!

I hope he suffered every second.

Shame on all the police who wouldn't listen when Joanne was telling them what he was.

Exactly

Netcurtainnelly · 11/10/2025 20:47

SerafinasGoose · 11/10/2025 20:22

How can one person leave so much misery in his wake? The details that came after his sentencing might qualify as the worst thing I think I've ever read.

The true ones to suffer are his child victims who I hope are now able to gain some small sense of comfort, closure and relief. But I also spare a thought for his former bandmates and the family who raised him.

Imagine being tainted by association with that?

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Imagine being its parents.

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Americano75 · 11/10/2025 20:47

PeonyPatch · 11/10/2025 20:46

I really hope they’re okay, and are in much more loving and supportive homes. I also wondered if they would ever find out what happened to them as a child. I guess for safeguarding reasons, no. That could destroy someone’s life. If it was me, I would never want to know. God bless their souls.

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I'm literally just pondering the same thing. Should they really be told? Or is the lie by omission kinder?

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PeonyPatch · 11/10/2025 20:46

Cherry8809 · 11/10/2025 20:43

I agree.

The level of absolute betrayal, it honestly makes me sick.

Those poor, poor kids are going to have to have that explained to them some day when they’re older, and I just hope they’re being raised by people who can support them through that discovery.

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I really hope they’re okay, and are in much more loving and supportive homes. I also wondered if they would ever find out what happened to them as a child. I guess for safeguarding reasons, no. That could destroy someone’s life. If it was me, I would never want to know. God bless their souls.

Butchyrestingface · 11/10/2025 20:46

BatchCookBabe · 11/10/2025 20:43

Fingers crossed!

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And yet Jeremy Bamber still lives and thrives...

Right enough, must be about time for his annual appeal.

LooseCanyon · 11/10/2025 20:46

I hope it hurt.

CountryQueen · 11/10/2025 20:45

BatchCookBabe · 11/10/2025 20:31

??? Confused

Missing the point much ?? MATE.

Google what NONCE stands for, and you will discover that you are in fact, wrong, with your claim that sex offenders are not at risk from other prisoners.

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My god. I know what nonce stands for 🤣 it’s not the early 1900s though and you are completely and utterly wrong about how we allocated and hold prisoners in the modern day prison service. Thanks for the history chat though, irrelevant though it was

PeonyPatch · 11/10/2025 20:44

Algen · 11/10/2025 20:42

After having read the court documents I am firmly convinced the mothers are at least as bad as him, if not worse.

I cannot imagine being an active participant in the abuse of my own child. I hope the children have a strong support network around them and all the therapy they need - thankfully it appears from the documents as though there won’t be lasting physical effects, but who knows about psychologically?

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Agreed. I don’t think I can read them. I just don’t understand. I’m not excusing him, but he did use heavy drugs like crystal meth, maybe they did too. They are inhumane.

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Americano75 · 11/10/2025 20:43

OhFeckWhatNow · 11/10/2025 20:41

What's wrong with H from Steps?
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Oh, he's a wee fanny. If you want a laugh, read up about the time he blocked half of twitter by mistake.

Not a beast though, bless him.

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Cherry8809 · 11/10/2025 20:43

PeonyPatch · 11/10/2025 20:39

I have wondered it in some ways the mothers are worse. How can you do that to your own child? Your own flesh and blood that primitively you are there to protect?!?

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I agree.

The level of absolute betrayal, it honestly makes me sick.

Those poor, poor kids are going to have to have that explained to them some day when they’re older, and I just hope they’re being raised by people who can support them through that discovery.

BatchCookBabe · 11/10/2025 20:43

Netcurtainnelly · 11/10/2025 20:42

Brilliant news.
Ian Huntley next.

Fingers crossed!

Algen · 11/10/2025 20:42

PeonyPatch · 11/10/2025 20:39

I have wondered it in some ways the mothers are worse. How can you do that to your own child? Your own flesh and blood that primitively you are there to protect?!?

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After having read the court documents I am firmly convinced the mothers are at least as bad as him, if not worse.

I cannot imagine being an active participant in the abuse of my own child. I hope the children have a strong support network around them and all the therapy they need - thankfully it appears from the documents as though there won’t be lasting physical effects, but who knows about psychologically?

Netcurtainnelly · 11/10/2025 20:42

Brilliant news.
Ian Huntley next.

BatchCookBabe · 11/10/2025 20:42

OhFeckWhatNow · 11/10/2025 20:41

What's wrong with H from Steps?
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He has the misfortune of also being called Ian Watkins.

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OhFeckWhatNow · 11/10/2025 20:41

Americano75 · 11/10/2025 17:27

Added a link.

I don't like H from Steps but at least he's not a fucking beast.

What's wrong with H from Steps?
<misses point>

ThatDreamyLemonBiscuit · 11/10/2025 20:40

neverbeenskiing · 11/10/2025 20:32

I completely agree. The vast, vast majority of people agree that paedophilia is utterly abhorrent. It's hardly a bold or refreshing take. There's really no need for competitive outrage at Watkin's crimes or those rushing to declare how tickled pink they are that he's been murdered. Not to mention all the ignorant comments about "guards looking the other way" or paramedics and doctors being in no rush to try to save him from people who clearly have no clue what they're talking about.

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I don't see any competitive outrage over his crimes (the "outrage" in this thread isn't really any different from the judge's remarks).

As to the glee at the death of a heinous individual - its a pretty normal, human response and a cathartic one.

The holier-than-thou posts just get an eyeroll from me.

PeonyPatch · 11/10/2025 20:39

Cherry8809 · 11/10/2025 20:36

I was a huge fan of Lostprophets in my teens and had multiple posters of Ian on my wall.

Was genuinely beyond shocked and disgusted when he was arrested and charged, and the court transcripts were utterly horrific.

There’s a very special place in hell for people like him, and the 2 mothers that offered up their babies for him to abuse.

I have wondered it in some ways the mothers are worse. How can you do that to your own child? Your own flesh and blood that primitively you are there to protect?!?

FTHC · 11/10/2025 20:39

CryMyEyesViolet · 11/10/2025 17:50

Well I’m truly astounded that people listen to music and think about the lead singer and their life while listening to it.

I don’t hear an R Kelly song and immediately think - sex trafficker, or an MJ song and not enjoy it because of paedophilia allegations. It’s separating art and artist I suppose.

And there were other people in that band whose livelihoods he destroyed. I’d be more than happy to enjoy their work and have them be paid royalties for it.

I used to I love lostprophets music, and have seen them live. I have not listened to a single song since he was convicted in 2013.

Read the sentencing remarks and you'll understand why I cannot listen to a second of what that evil, vile man wrote.

I hope he spends for ever in purgatory choking on his own blood. Hell is too good for that scumbag.

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