One of the inmates arrested after former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins was killed in prison on October 11 has pleaded not guilty. Watkins was serving a 29-year prison sentence with an additional 6-year probation after being charged with multiple sex offenses in 2013. The convicted pedophile was stabbed in Wakefield Prison and was 48 years old.

Two inmates were taken into custody after the incident, and the prison was locked down. Rashid “Rico” Gedel (25) and Samuel Dodsworth (43) were charged with Watkins’ murder two days later. In a recent coroner’s report, it was revealed that Watkins died after being stabbed in the neck. He bled out and was dead when emergency personnel arrived.

On November 12, Dodsworth appeared at Leeds Crown Court to enter his plea. According to a report from B

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