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Ian Watkins Dead

817 replies

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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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.

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?

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?

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?

Kimura · 11/10/2025 22:09

ThatDreamyLemonBiscuit · 11/10/2025 21:15

That was, indeed, the joke.

Sorry, it's been a long day 😭

AdoraBell · 11/10/2025 22:10

Good.

Willyoujust · 11/10/2025 22:11

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

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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ThatDreamyLemonBiscuit · 11/10/2025 22:13

Americano75 · 11/10/2025 22:12

I'm losing count now.

I'm still tallying...

5, 6, 7, 8...

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

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

Americano75 · 11/10/2025 22:13

ThatDreamyLemonBiscuit · 11/10/2025 22:13

I'm still tallying...

5, 6, 7, 8...

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

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EvieBB · 11/10/2025 22:15

Americano75 · 11/10/2025 22:12

I'm losing count now.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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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.

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.

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….

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.

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.

SwingTheMonkey · 11/10/2025 22:21

I’m unashamedly happy he’s dead. It doesn’t matter to me the reason he’s been killed, the cunt is dead. There’s a special place in hell for the mothers who offered up their precious babies to be abused by him. Those women who were supposed to love and protect their children to the ends of the earth. May they meet a similar fate…

Wednesdaysotherchild · 11/10/2025 22:22

Good, I hope he died in agony. I read those sentencing remarks with my 10 month baby boy in my arms and nearly vomited.

I hope those 2 mothers were sterilised and that the poor baby boy and baby girl were both raised by loving families. My heart breaks for them, they deserved so much better.

Americano75 · 11/10/2025 22:22

Butchyrestingface · 11/10/2025 22:20

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.

Oh, I really have learned that one!

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InterIgnis · 11/10/2025 22:23

ThatDreamyLemonBiscuit · 11/10/2025 21:12

Now THIS is an actual sickening and deranged response.

Huh?

I’m speculating about the reason why he got his throat cut, not querying his conviction.

ChamelalaBingBong · 11/10/2025 22:24

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Claysta · 11/10/2025 22:24

Good, I will sleep well tonight.

janeandmarysmum · 11/10/2025 22:24

CountryQueen · 11/10/2025 21:04

You don’t think it’s important that people have the facts so they can stop congratulating the prisoner that did this?

You sound about 6 if you think it’s ok that keyboard warriors are accusing prison officers of turning a blind eye to murder. Maybe stop reading if you don’t like them being challenged.

Oh don't be absurd. They are both desperately trying to outdo each other and have the last word. It's so tedious.

InterIgnis · 11/10/2025 22:25

ReleaseTheDucksOfWar · 11/10/2025 21:58

@ThatDreamyLemonBiscuit the previous stabbing of Watkins in prison was over a drug debt, or so it was reported. He paid other prisoners to keep him protected after that according to Wiki, but the first stabbing was drugs related not due to what he'd done to children.

I dont think @InterIgnis was denying Watkin's abhorrent crimes. I think she was saying that he might have been killed in prison for other reasons such as drug debt.

Exactly this.

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