performs live on the Main stage during day one of Reading Festival on August 27, 2010 in Reading, England. (Photo by Simone Joyner/WireImage)
Reports suggest Watkins was stabbed in the neck during the assault, dying from blood loss. A source told the Daily Mail that the attack was “the most brutal way” and “shocking,” with “blood everywhere.” Despite guards rushing to the scene, “there was nothing they could do, and they couldn’t save him.”
The weekend’s fatal attack wasn’t the first time the former rockstar had faced violence inside. In 2023, he was slashed with a sharpened toilet brush during a fight over a drug debt. A year earlier, he was held hostage for six hours and knifed, leaving him hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries.
Indeed, Watkins knew well that he was effectively living with a target on his back. In 2019, the 48-year-old was punished for having a phone in prison. When it was discovered, he tried to claim that he was holding it for other inmates, but ultimately had an extra 10 months added onto his sentence.
As per reports, Watkins refused to name the inmates to whom the cellphone belonged, talking openly about the consequences he might face.
“Chances are someone would sneak up behind me and cut my throat,” he allegedly said. “It’s not like one-on-one. Stuff like that, you don’t see it comingContinue reading…
