A prisoner accused of murdering Ian Watkins told the Lostprophets singer ‘this is what paedophiles deserve’ as he slashed his throat with a makeshift blade, a court has heard.
Rico Gedel, 25, said he could ‘not cope’ with being housed around sex offenders and admitted to attacking Watkins, but denied intending to murder him.
He told Leeds Crown Court that he ‘slashed’ the neck of the paedophile in a 20-second attack at maximum-security HMP Wakefield, where Watkins was serving a 35-year sentence for a string of horrific child sex offences.
The depraved frontman suffered catastrophic blood loss after suffering three wounds to his
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