Just a couple of months ago in Wakefield Prison, an inmate awoke in his cell with a target on his back.

He was the most hated man in the building and in the whole of the UK for the heinous crimes that he had been convicted of.

He had been attacked countless times in prison already. His fellow inmates were actively trying to kill him. But this man was no ordinary

prisoner. He was the most famous man in that jail. Once with millions of fans, he was so powerful

that he was practically above the law. Yet, here he was, on a random day in October, bleeding out on the cold concrete floor of the

jail. The whole nation celebrating the news of his death. So, who is he?

Outlaw.

Hello and welcome to Outlaw Podcast.

I'm Eleanor Neal and in today's episode, we're in Wakefield, North England in 2025,

where an alarm has just been raised for a violent attack on an inmate named Ian Watkins.

He was the lead singer of Lost Profits, one of the biggest rock bands in Britain, but for the last decade, he had been behind bars for some seriously effed up twisted crimes.

Every night, after he finished singing to sold out stadiums, he would return to hotel rooms, where women awaited him, but it wasn't the women he wanted. It was who they had brought with them. Now, before we get into this case, I just want to

give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that we talk about in

this episode, I guess apart from Ian Watkins himself.

We will, however, be covering a lot of sensitive topics, including severe child, sexual exploitation

and abuse, addiction, violence, murder, and some of the worst text messages discussing

children that you will ever hear.

Viewer discretion is strongly advised, so feel free to click out of this episode now if you need to,

and hopefully I'll see you again some other time with a different episode.

So many of you have requested that we should do an outlaw episode on Ian Watkins,

and honestly, for the longest time,

it's been something that I didn't want to go anywhere near

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