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Ian Watkins at risk from 'inmates looking to make a name'

Singer Ian Watkins could be at risk of attack from fellow inmates inside Wakefield prison, the general secretary of the Prison Officers Association said. The ex-Lostprophets frontman was jailed for 35 years for a string of child sex abuse offences.

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Judge: Difficult to imagine worse sexual crimes

Sentencing Ian Watkins to 35 years for a string of sexual offences against children, Mr Justice Royce spoke in court of an interview he had with the probation service, after admitting the charges against him.

Read: Watkins sentenced to 35 years for sex abuse

The judge said to Watkins:

You spoke to the author of your desire to shock and your craving to push the sexual boundaries. This craving was fuelled by your use of cocaine and methamphetamine which increased your sexual aggression.

You spoke of not knowing to what extremes you would have gone but for your arrest. It is difficult to imagine anything much worse.

The judge said that the author of the physiological assessment report on Watkins concluded he was highly dangerous, especially towards his female sexual partners.

Mr Watkins presents a high risk of causing serious sexual, physical, emotional and psychological harm to children, both male and female, and to women, specifically his female sexual partners.

It is also my assessment that the child victims in this case appear to be coincidental to his need to dominate and to test out the extent to which his sexual partners would collude and participate in his sexual interests.

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