Broadday, the UK drill rapper born Rashid Gedel, was charged with the homicide of disgraced former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins, who was fatally stabbed inside HMP Wakefield, a maximum-security jail in West Yorkshire, on Saturday morning.

The 25-year-old rapper and one other inmate, 43-year-old Samuel Dodsworth, appeared in Leeds Magistrates’ Court on Monday (October 12). Both confirmed their names however entered no pleas, BBC News studies.

The pair have been remanded in custody and are scheduled to seem earlier than a Crown Court decide at a later date.

Watkins, as soon as a chart-topping rock singer, was serving a 29-year sentence for a string of kid sex crimes, together with the tried rape of a child.

He was convicted in 2013 and branded a “dangerous sexual predator” by prosecutors and the general public alike.

The deadly assault befell inside Wakefield Prison—also known as “Monster Mansion” on account of its inhabitants of high-risk offenders.

Following the stabbing, the ability was locked down as authorities launched an investigation into the killing and reviewed inside safety protocols.

This wasn’t Watkins’ first brush with violence behind bars. In 2023, he survived one other assault that left him with minor accidents.

Broadday’s newest cost provides to his already prolonged rap sheet. In August 2023, he was sentenced to life in jail for his position within the 2021 stabbing demise of Sven Badzak, a 22-year-old aspiring lawyer.

That assault, which befell in Kilburn, northwest London, was reportedly a case of mistaken identification.

Gedel and co-defendant Shiroh Ambersley have been a part of a six-man group that focused the mistaken particular person in what police described as a gang-style ambush.

Badzak was stabbed a number of occasions and collapsed earlier than dying on the scene. His 16-year-old pal additionally suffered a number of stab wounds however managed to flee and search assist at a close-by retailer.

Gedel and Ambersley have been every handed life sentences with a minimal time period of 27 years for Badzak’s homicide.

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