Overview
- Jurors at Leeds Crown Court watched body‑worn video and CPS clips that show Rico Gedel smiling after the attack and asking for Sudoku as officers searched for a weapon.
- Footage also shows officers pulling an improvised blade taped to plastic cutlery from a communal bin, which Samuel Dodsworth says he threw away after panicking.
- Prosecutors present the October 2025 cell attack as a joint plan with Dodsworth acting as lookout and disposing of the knife, and both defendants plead not guilty to murder.
- Gedel admits stabbing Ian Watkins but says he did not intend to kill and says he wanted to be moved off a wing that housed sex offenders.
- Watkins, a high‑profile sex offender serving a 29‑year term since 2013, died from severe neck wounds, a detail that underscores questions about safety and monitoring in high‑security prisons.