Disgraced Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins has been stabbed in jail, in keeping with stories.

The 46-year-old is serving a 29-year jail time period for a number of sexual offences, together with critical crimes in opposition to younger youngsters and infants.

According to the Mirror, the paedophile is in a "life-threatening condition" following the incident at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

The newspaper stories he was taken hostage by three different inmates on Saturday morning and was freed by jail officers six hours later.

"There are fears he could die. If he survives, he'll have been very lucky," the supply advised them.

A Prison Service spokesperson stated: "Police are investigating an incident which took place on Saturday at HMP Wakefield.

"We are unable to remark additional whereas the police examine."

Watkins was sentenced in December 2013, after admitting 13 intercourse offences, together with the tried rape of a fan's child.

He additionally inspired a second fan to abuse her little one throughout a webcam chat and secretly stashed little one pornography movies, a few of which he had made himself.

At the time, police described him as a "committed, organised paedophile".

Having discovered fame in Lostprophets, Watkins was arrested after his Pontypridd house was searched on orders of a drug warrant in September 2012.

A lot of computer systems, cell phones and storage units have been seized through the search.

When sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court, the singer was advised he was being given an prolonged sentence - and a choose stated his crimes "plumbed new depths of depravity".

Watkins will serve two-thirds of the time period behind bars earlier than being launched. He will serve a further six years on licence.

After being caught with a mobile phone behind bars in 2019, he advised a courtroom that he was locked up with "murderers, mass murderers, rapists, paedophiles, serial killers - the worst of the worst".