Jury sent out in Ian Watkins murder trial

Jurors in the trial of two men accused of murdering paedophile Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins in jail have retired to consider their verdicts.

The former rockstar was stabbed to death in his cell at high-security HMP Wakefield on 11 October last year.

Prosecutors told Leeds Crown Court that Rico Gedel stabbed Watkins three times with a makeshift knife, which he then passed to Samuel Dodsworth, who threw it in a bin.

Serving prisoners Gedel, 25, who was initially referred to by police as Rashid Gedel, and Dodsworth, 44, both deny murder and possessing a knife in prison.

Watkins was jailed for 29 years in 2013 after admitting a string of sex offences, including the attempted rape of a fan's baby.

Gedel told the trial he hated being housed with sex offenders at the prison and had threatened to hurt "any number of paedophiles" if he was not transferred.

He said he selected Watkins largely due to "proximity", as he had been put in the cell next to him the night before.

Judge Mr Justice Hilliard previously told the jury there was no dispute that Gedel was guilty of at least manslaughter.

It was agreed that a "deliberate, unlawfully inflicted injury caused Ian Watkins' death".

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