Paedophile Lostprophets frontman was sending love letters to his secret fiancée till a day earlier than he was killed in jail final Saturday, it’s reported.
The disgraced rockstar died aged 48 whereas serving 29-years behind bars for a string of sexual assaults on youngsters, together with the tried rape of a child.
In his 2013 sentencing a decide described Watkins as having sunk to ‘new depths of depravity’ as he preyed on followers, two of whom supplied up their infants to be abused by him and received sentences of 14 and 17 years.
Now The Solar stories his manipulation of followers continued till the day earlier than his demise, as he cast a relationship with a 30-year-old fan referred to as Ellie – not her actual identify – who he’d beforehand met backstage at a gig when she was 15.
Watkins, who had correspondence with Ellie over a ten yr interval, despatched a letter which arrived at her home the day earlier than his throat was slashed by fellow inmates.
‘I need you to understand how a lot I’ve loved annoying you all this time and the way excited I’m to proceed this sooner or later. Blissful Birthday,’ he wrote, having beforehand advised her to get a hoop, proposing to her in jail in entrance of his fellow inmates.
‘Duchess. Didn’t suppose I’d overlook your birthday did you. They gained’t maintain us aside ceaselessly. Your Duke. IW,’ he additionally stated.
In a single letter, Watkins recalled his 2023 jail assault, explaining he ‘virtually died’ after he was stabbed within the neck ‘eight occasions’ resulting in spinal nerve injury.
He then mirrored: ‘Fortunately I’m nonetheless actually scorching. Somebody on the wing stated I appear like Grindelwald the opposite day from Improbable Beasts. So at any time when I get in comparison with Johnny Depp it’s at all times an excellent day, haha.’
Watkins additionally ‘hated’ weekends in HMP Wakefield – nicknamed Monster Mansion – because the prisons had been unlocked from their cells, a second which noticed inmates kill him in the long run.
Ellie, who spoke with Watkins on the telephone most days, revealed that she ‘fell to the ground’ and couldn’t converse or breathe on discovering out he’d died.
She had first made contact with him a yr after his 2012 arrest within the hope that he could be extra accessible, when a fellow fan had inspired her to, regardless of initially breaking her obsession with Lostprophets due to his heinous crimes.
After her first letter, Ellie – who knew she was one among 4 or 5 girls visiting him in jail, with a whole lot extra sending letters – received an instantaneous reply saying: ‘I’ve been ready to listen to from you.’
‘I gained’t lie, when he replied it made me really feel particular. He’d chosen to answer to me,’ Ellie stated, admitting she needed to be his favorite.
‘Again then he wasn’t even good in letters. He was simply very controlling, demanding,’ she stated, explaining: ‘If I didn’t reply, say if I took a day, two days, as a result of I used to be busy, he’d be like, why haven’t you written to me? Don’t you care about me? And I’d be so scared to not write to him. I didn’t need him to hate me.’;
Through the first six months of their exchanges, Ellie went from 12 to eight stone in weight.
Police confirmed within the aftermath of Watkins’ demise that Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, had been charged along with his homicide and had been in police custody.
In December 2012, after Watkins was arrested on drug fees, his sick crimes had been uncovered when the police seized laptops that contained indecent photos of youngsters.
In 2013, Watkins pleaded responsible to quite a few sexual offences, together with sexual assaults towards youngsters, and the possession of indecent photos of each youngsters and animals.
In 2014, Watkins was refused the precise to enchantment towards his 35-year sentence. Legal professionals for Watkins claimed he ought to have his jail time period minimize as a result of his last-minute responsible plea spared a jury from having to look at his home-made baby pornography.
Among the many disturbing movies attributable to be proven at his trial included his tried rape of a child and a webcam chat wherein he instructed a crazed fan to abuse her baby.
Lord Justice Pitchford stated on the refusal: ‘These had been offences towards toddler youngsters of such surprising depravity {that a} very prolonged sentence of imprisonment was demanded.
‘It isn’t demonstrated the whole sentence of 29 years along with the prolonged licence interval was arguably manifestly extreme. Accordingly, the appliance in his case is refused.’
Forward of the conclusion of his trial, Welsh rock band Lostprophets, which was based in 1997 by Watkins and guitarist Lee Gaze, cancelled all their exhibits and disbanded.
Watkins’ Lostprophets co-founder Gaze lately spoke out within the wake of his demise, responding to followers on social media.
After Watkins’ responsible plea Gaze, speaking of the band’s horror-stricken response, stated: ‘There was two units of it [shock] as a result of there have been the accusations – which was one factor.
‘After which there was the precise, “Yeah I did do it” which was a yr later. He dragged that out for a yr, so we received hit by it twice.’
He added: ‘How might you realize? How would you realize?
‘Who would disclose such a factor to 5 individuals, who between them have eight youngsters? You simply wouldn’t as a result of they might be killed on the spot.’
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