Ian Watkins Dead

[Americano75]

Gosh, how sad. (100% sarcastic)

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

What happened to the women who gave him their children to abuse?

Having a family member working as a prison officer I do feel for the staff, especially the person who found the body. There will be an investigation and it's not only aimed at finding the killer but also into the staffing and whether they have any liability. While they may not be mourning his death the stress of an investigation may well further deter these people from continuing to work in what is an understaffed and underfunded service.

But the child abusers /killers always rank the lowest of the low. It’s category A - murderers and rapists. Some people think they deserve to live, have use of a gym, be well fed, warm, entertained, access to work, education even though they can never be released into society.

They where jailed it was in the court documents

I think prison can be worse than death. I wish this has happened on the day he was due to be released.

If the assailant has been identified and presumably faces trial, could we possibly see a case of de facto jury nullification (eg, acquittal) in the English courts?

Was he killed in his cell?

I don't agree this should have happened, murder is wrong regardless of who the victim is, but I also feel no sympathy for Watkins.

Well this is all rather distasteful.

Yes the man did horrible things and was locked away for a very long time as a consequence. However, posters are trying to outdo each other by being the most happy, the most delighted, the most ecstatic at his passing. It's very odd.

Oh look, if it isn’t the consequences of his own actions!

Killed by a fellow inmate, too! Guess it's true what they say about child offenders being viewed as the lowest of the low in prison.

I love it when bad people use their dodgy skills for the greater good! 😂 Well done that murderer!

Couple of days ago Gisele Pelicot's rapist got another year added to his sentence, and today Ian Watkins. That and Gaza, well, it's been a good few days for a change news wise.

Mad to think though that, as an entertainer who was also a child rapist, if he'd just been born on the other side of the Atlantic he'd have been a very strong candidate to be elected president.

Poor Diane Keaton, to die on the same day as this one. .

Throat slashed too, oof. Good news all round, I think 🙂

Oh no, not Diane Keaton!

Ah, well, not always really the case is it? I mean, if someone had murdered Hitler when he was 18 years old, well..

I do believe some people are so flipping evil that I am happy to smile a little when they've been taken away.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/r-v-watkins-and-others.pdf

Sentencing remarks. Don't read them if you're feeling fragile. Some of it involves a ten-month-old baby.

No it's not.

Is it though?

I'm just surprised that he wasn't in one of the specialist nonce prisons. "Men" like him are always targets.

Just been talking to my partner about this. We both said good, what a vile man! I was a huge lost profits fan as a teen and feel a bit sick that I had his poster on my wall 🤢 I just cannot get my head around what he did….and he blamed it on drugs as far as I remember?! He deserved what happened to him

Oh no. First wives club… she needs her own thread.

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.

I think it's pretty distasteful being sarcastic in this case.