What had started as an innocent campaign trying to get the singer to notice Hannah on social media quickly descended into a twisted game
IT WAS with a racing heart that besotted Lostprophets superfan Hannah opened a message from her idol Ian Watkins.
But when the teenager saw the frontman’s demonic demand that she and her nine-month-old daughter become his ‘sex slaves’ it shocked her so much, she’s physically sick when she thinks of it today.
What had started as an innocent campaign trying to get the singer to notice her on social media – quickly descended into a twisted game by the paedo rockstar that still gives her nightmares.
Not only did he want to see the 17-year-old naked on webcam – he almost instantly turned his attention to her innocent daughter.
Hannah, who works as a health care assistant, said: “I didn’t realise how much it has affected me – it’s really really bad.
“It’s sickening really – it makes me physically sick.
“He used to ask me to go on the webcam. At one point I did and he was there and I panicked so I shut it off.
“He then messaged me again and asked me to go on the webcam naked.”
But her refusal didn’t deter the depraved pervert.
She added: “He asked if me and my daughter could come and meet him – in my head I thought ‘no, I’m not doing that’.
“He asked if my baby would be able to call him dad.
“He asked me if we could be used as sex slaves.
“Not long after that he was arrested and then everything came out.”
Convicted paedophile Watkins died after being attacked at HMP Wakefield on Saturday – where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offences.
He asked if me and my daughter could come and meet him – in my head I thought ‘no, I’m not doing that’.
Hannah
Once the frontman of one of the world’s biggest rock bands, it was back in 2013 when he admitted to a chain of horrific child sex abuse offences, including the attempted rape of a baby.
The 36-year-old confessed to 13 vile offences – including trying to rape a fan’s 11-month-old son and conspiring to rape another’s daughter.
In one attack, he was filmed trying to rape a baby twice.
Cops had to wade through a massive 27 terabytes of data on Watkins’ computer hard drives.
Among 90 abuse images, 24 were level five, the most serious category.
Officers were even forced to turn to the government intelligence network GCHQ to crack complex encryption codes in a bid to unearth the sickening evidence to lock him away for good.
He got 29 years – one of the longest ever sentences for a paedophile.
At the time the judge said Watkins and his two female co-defendants, whom he manipulated into the heinous acts, had “plumbed new depths of depravity”.
The honourable Mr Justice Royce said: “Any decent person looking at and listening to the material here will experience shock; revulsion; anger and incredulity.”
He went on: “You Watkins, achieved fame and success as the lead singer of the Lostprophets.
“You had many fawning fans. That gave you power.
“You knew you could use that power to induce young female fans to help satisfy your apparently insatiable lust and to take part in the sexual abuse of their young children.
“Away from the highlights of your public performances lay a dark and sinister side.”
And he was described by the investigating detective as having no remorse, making “him the most dangerous sex offender I’ve ever seen”
HEINOUS ACTS
Watkins’ abuse of one tot at the posh K-West hotel in Shepherd’s Bush in April 2012 had come just hours after appearing on Radio 1 to talk about his band’s latest album Weapons.
And it was that same year that Hannah Brown decided to try and get the frontman to retweet her on X, formerly known as Twitter.
It didn’t take him long to notice the enthusiastic fangirl – and sent a private DM with his Skype details.
The two began chatting and Hannah – not her real name – alleges Watkins soon asked her to appear on webcam – which she says she did momentarily before shutting it off.
It was then that he asked her to appear on her webcam naked, before his sick request that she and her nine-month-old daughter come and meet him – and asked if they would be his “sex slaves”.
Hannah admitted she was “obsessed” with Watkins and that she and her friend did consider meeting him.
She said: “My friend was there at one point when he was sending me messages, and we thought about going to meet him when he asked but we didn’t in the end.
“My friend and I went to see them on tour in Preston in November 2012 before he started messaging me and his tour manager was there – he seemed to be interested in us two.
“He said we could meet them all and the rest of the band were really nice.
“The tour manager asked if we wanted to come to Sheffield with them on the tour bus.
“I’m just glad in that aspect I had my wits about me that I didn’t go and meet him.
“I don’t know what would have happened.”
