Inside 'Monster Mansion' HMP Wakefield where disgraced Lostprophets singer was stabbed

The ironically named Love Lane in Wakefield is also the address of 'Monster Mansion' - the Category A prison HMP Wakefield, which holds some 600 of Britain’s most dangerous criminals.

On Saturday, reports emerged that paedophile and disgraced former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins is 'fighting for his life' after being beaten and stabbed by three unnamed inmates. Watkins, 46, has been locked up at the Yorkshire prison since 2013 when he was jailed for 35 years for 13 offences against children, including the attempted rape of an 11 month old baby.

He was said to be taken hostage for six hours by the inmates and an armed 'Tornado' team of specially trained riot officers had to break up the situation with grenades being hurled into the cell to free him. The Lostprophets Singer included, HMP Wakefield is home to some of Britain's most high-profile, high-risk sex offenders and murderers, reports the Mirror.

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The likes of Charles Bronson, Harold Shipman and Jeremy Bamber have been counted among the notorious residents. After being caught with a mobile phone behind bars in 2019, Watkins told a court that he was locked up with "murderers, mass murderers, rapists, paedophiles, serial killers - the worst of the worst".

Wakefield is one of oldest prisons in the UK having originally built as a correction house in 1954 with many of the current buildings dating from the Victoria era. In 2001 a new ultra-secure unit - the first of its kind in the UK - was built especially for Britain's most dangerous criminals.

The notorious jail also contains an underground glass box where murderer Robert Maudsley, chillingly dubbed 'Hannibal