Ian Watkins: Jailed Lostprophets frontman ‘still receives hundreds of pages of mail from women’, court hears

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Jailed Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins “still receives hundreds of pages of mail from women”, a court heard. On Tuesday, Watkins’ barrister Gareth Burrows asked prison governor Tom Wheatley: “It’s right to say that he’s received a lot of mail, and continues to do so, from females?” Mr Wheatley said he was not aware of the quantity but when asked whether it was “hundreds and hundreds of pages of letters” he said: “That would sound reasonable.” The prison governor said he could not confirm Mr Burrows’ contention that the correspondents were “almost exclusively women”. He agreed with Mr Burrows, who said: “It is clear that there are a number of females who continue to contact him in prison properly through the Prison Service through letters, through emails and visits.” But the officer also agreed that some of the numbers in the phone appeared to be unconnected to Watkins, including one registered to the partner of a convicted murder who was housed on the same wing. Support free-thinking journalism and attend Independent events Watkins, 42, from Pontypridd, south Wales, denies one count of possessing a mobile phone in prison.