Ian Watkins Dead

Well, no. You called the killer, who has already been convicted for serious offences, your mate and wanted to buy him a drink. For all you know the person concerned is Ian Huntley or someone just as despicable as Watkins. On any interpretation he's a pretty awful person. Why do you want him to be your mate?

Saddest news I’ve heard in the last 2 1/2 seconds.

Why? Who forced him to commit murder?

You feel sorry for a fellow possible peadophile, rapist, murderer?

Thank you, was trying to lighten the mood of the thread😂

Glad you cottoned on🙊

I'm sorry to learn you're a csa victim. That is something I wouldn't wish upon anyone. Given what you've said I find it even more odd that you feel the way you do but conclude that it must mean you're a bigger and better person than I.

I read a couple of snippets in the papers and if these are to be believed, he was killed because said prisoner who killed him, was raging mad over something to do with guitar lessons and the young groupies visiting Ian Watkins, so possibly not because he was a vile paedo. Wtf?

I will never agree with the death penalty, but won't lose sleep over that piece of shit.

I'm normally of the opinion that loss of liberty is the punishment, and prisoners should not have to live in fear or misery. I also think it is important to remember that no matter how abhorrent a person is, they are someone's son, someone's sibling etc, However, in this case, the only sad thing is that he is no longer suffering.

I would have preferred him to survive this stabbing, and the next one, and the one after that...

💯. There was a news article on a baby killer, who got beaten up with a frozen water bottle in prison. Great. The attacker was just as vile as the baby killer, he hunted down, battered his ex GF and her male friend to death 10 years ago.
I assume this killer will be evil too.

The only way to know what was being prevented though would be if you could time travel, and then you could re-direct his life so no murder needed.

Also, I notice you went for 18 and not 8, or as a baby.

I knew it was sarcastic, but I also thought it was really glib. Seemed a strange start to such a serious topic. I'm not even sure why it's an AIBU.

Keep up.

Well I had to vote then started reading the thread.
It's what I normally do. Just explaining why the votes look 40/50. It seems I wasn't the only one either.

Really?

No clues at all from context, or any of the subsequent posts by OP, or the hundreds of posts of discussion?

Paedophiles are sub-human IMO.

Exactly. Doesn’t even know who killed him but “yeah mate, let me buy you a pint”.

Read all my posts before accusing me of banging any fucking drum 🤷🏽‍♀️

Your celebration of violence in prisons and public encouraging “yes mate, have a drink on me buddy” mentality has consequences. For all of the people who do jobs you wouldn’t want to do. HTH 🙄

For me I think it's fair to say I had forgotten all about him and am happy to continue forgetting all about him. No joy taken, just moving on.

I don’t think anyone is lamenting the death of this repulsive creature. Everyone is disgusted by his crimes.

But if Watkins had murdered one of his fellow Cat A prisoners, who had committed similarly serious and horrific crimes (but not received the publicity that being in a successful rock band brings) would you be applauding him? Wanting to buy him a pint, and, sickeningly, calling him your “mate”?

I cannot take joy in death.

But this comes close. That in itself saddens me further.

Just awful.

I agree. I burst into tears (and I only cry about three times a year!) and my 5 year old son came in and hugged me. I don’t think I have ever hugged one of my children so tightly.

those Mothers deserve to die and rot in hell too. The only thing I have read that was as disturbing was the details of the Jamie Bulger case but it was children who were, themselves, vulnerable and children. But what Ian and those mothers did was incomprehensible. And how young those babies were is unthinkable.

I don’t understand why the walking female wombs (I refuse to call them Mothers) are not named? Was their identify protected to protect the children and babies in question.

Yes,for about 5 seconds I thought it was serious! Until I saw the word 'paedophile' in the link,I thought it was referring to Ian Watkins from Steps.

This.

Take this with the proverbial grain of salt, but from what I’ve heard about his time in prison (which isn’t a lot, and is second hand), he wasn’t exactly cowering away and remorseful. He remained as arrogant as ever, and thoroughly enjoyed his celebrity and criminal infamy. He also spent most of his time high, and willingly involved himself with even more criminal prison activity (rather than it being solely the case that he was forced or coerced into it).

He was, simply put, no less a dickhead inside prison than he was outside of it. Being a dickhead to his fellow inmates in Wakefield specifically did mean that his chances of getting his throat cut were significantly higher, however. It’s highly likely that he was stabbed because he wasn’t paying his accumulated debts and/or crossed someone he shouldn’t have.

Very hard to know if your OP is sarcastic or if you've come on here to provoke mums.