Overview
- The trial, which was due to start Tuesday, has been postponed by a day and is now set for Wednesday.
- Rashid (Rico) Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, are charged with murdering Watkins, 48, at HMP Wakefield on October 11, 2025.
- The hearing will take place at Leeds Crown Court before The Honourable Mr Justice Hilliard, with local coverage reporting both men deny the attack.
- Watkins was the former Lostprophets frontman and was serving a 29-year sentence, plus six years on licence, for serious child sex offences after a 2012 arrest and device seizures at his home.
- He had previously been attacked in custody in 2023 and was later convicted in 2019 of possessing a mobile phone in prison, details that have fueled public interest in the security of high-profile inmates.