Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins died this month after being attacked in prison and stabbed in the neck. Now, an “inquest” into his death has concluded with a coroner ruling that the stab wound was his official cause of death.

Watkins, 48, was a convicted child sex offender who was murdered in Wakefield Prison, where he was being held. NME reports that he was supposed to serve a 29-year prison sentence “with a further six years on licence.”

On Friday, October 24, an “inquest” into Watkins’ death was opened and closed at Wakefield Coroner’s Court. During the hearing, Coroner Oliver Longstaff stated that, on Oct. 11, Watkins was pronounced dead at the West Yorkshire jail by an attending doctor and was formally identified by a member of the prison staff.

Longstaff also stated that paramed

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