Broadday, the UK drill rapper born Rashid Gedel, was charged with the homicide of disgraced former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins, who was fatally stabbed inside HMP Wakefield, a maximum-security jail in West Yorkshire, on Saturday morning.
The 25-year-old rapper and one other inmate, 43-year-old Samuel Dodsworth, appeared in Leeds Magistrates’ Courtroom on Monday (October 12). Each confirmed their names however entered no pleas, BBC Information reviews.
The pair had been remanded in custody and are scheduled to look earlier than a Crown Courtroom choose at a later date.
Watkins, as soon as a chart-topping rock singer, was serving a 29-year sentence for a string of kid intercourse crimes, together with the tried rape of a child.
He was convicted in 2013 and branded a “harmful sexual predator” by prosecutors and the general public alike.
The deadly assault happened inside Wakefield Jail—also known as “Monster Mansion” attributable to its inhabitants of high-risk offenders.
Following the stabbing, the power was locked down as authorities launched an investigation into the killing and reviewed inner safety protocols.
This wasn’t Watkins’ first brush with violence behind bars. In 2023, he survived one other assault that left him with minor accidents.
Broadday’s newest cost provides to his already prolonged rap sheet. In August 2023, he was sentenced to life in jail for his function within the 2021 stabbing dying of Sven Badzak, a 22-year-old aspiring lawyer.
That assault, which happened in Kilburn, northwest London, was reportedly a case of mistaken identification.
Gedel and co-defendant Shiroh Ambersley had been a part of a six-man group that focused the unsuitable individual in what police described as a gang-style ambush.
Badzak was stabbed a number of instances and collapsed earlier than dying on the scene. His 16-year-old good friend additionally suffered a number of stab wounds however managed to flee and search assist at a close-by retailer.
Gedel and Ambersley had been every handed life sentences with a minimal time period of 27 years for Badzak’s homicide.
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