Reports suggest Watkins was stabbed in the neck during the assault, dying from blood loss. A source told the Daily Mail that the attack was “the most brutal way” and “shocking,” with “blood everywhere.” Despite guards rushing to the scene, “there was nothing they could do, and they couldn’t save him.”

He was airlifted by ambulance helicopter to the hospital, but his life could not be saved. According to Daily Mail, the former rock singer is one of the highest-profile prisoners to be killed in a British prison.

Opened for Metallica in 2004

And this wasn’t the first time Watkins was targeted behind bars.

In 2023, he was slashed with a sharpened toilet brush during a fight over a drug debt. A year earlier, he was held hostage for six hours and knifed, leaving him hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.