Rock star Ian Watkins guilty of attempted baby rape

Rock singer Ian Watkins has been labelled as a “determined and committed paedophile” after he pleaded guilty to a string of sex offences, including the attempted rape of a baby.

Rock star Ian Watkins guilty of attempted baby rape

The drug-crazed former lead singer with the band Lostprophets plotted the abuse with two mothers in a series of text and online messages in which he spoke of his desire to “cross the line” and to intoxicate one of his victims by blowing crystal- meth smoke into the child’s face.

Watkins, aged 36, from Pontypridd, south Wales, pleaded guilty to a string of sex offences he had previously denied in a last- minute plea change ahead of what would have been his trial at Cardiff Crown Court.

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