On Saturday (Oct. 11th), Lostprophets frontman and convicted pedophile Ian Watkins was stabbed to death while in prison in the UK. The singer was sentenced to 29 years imprisonment in 2013 after pleading guilty to multiple offences involving children and infants.
In the wake of Watkins’ death, his ex-girlfriend is speaking out, admitting that she is not only glad he was killed, but is surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
“I was always waiting for this phone call,” Joanne Mjadzelics told the Daily Mail. “He was walking around with a target on his back from the first day he entered the prison. I expected it to have happened earlier.”
Prior to Watkins’ 2013 conviction, Mjadzelics helped to expose his crimes and has since lived in fear of him “getting out and tracking me down” out of revenge.
“This is a relief,” she said of his death. “I wanted him dead for a long time after everything he did. I am relieved, I feel like a weight has been lifted from my head.”
Mjadzelics, who repeatedly reported Watkins to authorities, added that she isn’t grieving her ex.
“The man I fell in love with never existed,” she said. “He manipulated me and that man who died today in prison was a stranger to me. I never loved him, he just put on a character.”
Watkins was killed as he was leaving his cell, with sources calling his murder “brutal” and “shocking, even by prison standards.”
His killer and a second person allegedly involved in the incident have since been apprehended.
