Russell Brand could be facing a transfer to one of Britain's most notorious jails where Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was stabbed to death.
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Watkins → face → death
The comedian is currently at HMP Wandsworth in south-west London after he was jailed for 10 and a half years on Monday for rape and three counts of sexual assault.
But he may be set for a move to HMP Wakefield, where Watkins, 48, was killed in October 2025 - followed by child killer Kyle Bevan a month later.
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Watkins → jail → Bevan
The jail in West Yorkshire is known as 'Monster Mansion' for housing some of the UK's most dangerous criminals alongside a large population of sex offenders.
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jail → know → offenders
Of all Britain's jails, Wakefield is among the toughest to serve time in.
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Wakefield → serve → time
Those locked up there include child killers Roy Whiting and Mark Bridger, as well as Jeremy Bamber - who murdered five members of his family at White House Farm, Essex, in 1985.
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who → lock → 1985
Jamie Varley was moved to the Category A jail over the summer after being convicted of the murder of 13-month-old Preston Davey.
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Varley → move → Davey
Two-thirds of its 630 prisoners are sex offenders, who are considered the 'lowest of the low' and preyed on by other inmates.
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Watkins, who was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex crimes, was fatally stabbed in the neck during an early morning ambush.
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who → serve → ambush
He was found dying in a pool of blood in a scene so gruesome that even hardened prison officers were shocked to their core.
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Two prisoners are set to go on trial for his murder next year.
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prisoners → set → murder
Russell Brand is said to be facing a transfer to HMP Wakefield, where Watkins was killed in October 2025 - followed by child killer Kyle Bevan a month later
The comedian - pictured with his wife Laura Gallacher - was jailed for 10 and a half years on Monday for rape and three counts of sexual assault
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comedian → say → assault
A month after Watkins' death, three convicted killers ambushed Kyle Bevan, who was being held at Wakefield after murdering his partner's two-year-old daughter.
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who → convict → daughter
Chilling prison CCTV footage, released after the trio were convicted of Bevan's murder, showed them laughing and joking before they stormed his cell.
They stabbed the 33-year-old 25 times before tucking him up in his bed, leaving him to bleed to death.
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They → chill → death
Three inmates - including a gangland assassin and two convicted murderers - received whole life terms for the murder.
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inmates → include → murder
Brand's current home of Wandsworth Prison is also notoriously violent, and was today described as 'hell on earth' by one former inmate.
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Chris Atkins, who served eight months at the jail for tax fraud, said Brand would find his first month to be 'hands-down the worst'.
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month → serve → fraud
While some deem Wakefield to be slightly better run than Wandsworth because its guards receive more training, its roll call of inmates is even more terrifying.
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'Wakefield is a run-down jail, short of staff, who are suffering from low morale,' a prison officer previously told the Mail.
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'No one turns up to work with a smile on their face.
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You are looking after some of the most horrible people in the country.
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With sex offenders, you could have people jailed for date rape all the way through to prolific child abusers, who are beyond any form of rehabilitation, mixing with violent criminals, murderers and gangsters.'
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Wakefield's history goes back to 1594 when it was founded as a 'house of correction' before the main facility that exists today was constructed in the 1840s.
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CCTV footage from inside Wakefield showed the three murderers waiting outside the cell of child killer Kyle Bevan before murdering him
This footage shows the moment the trio entered Bevan's cell before knifing him to death
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The killers stabbed 33-year-old Bevan 25 times before tucking him up in his bed, leaving him to bleed to death.
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killers → stab → death
Harold Shipman served time there, as did Soham killer Ian Huntley and Levi Bellfield, who murdered two women and schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
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Other former inmates include 'Britain's most violent prisoner' Charles Bronson and Robert Maudsley, the country's longest-serving inmate.
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inmates → include → prisoner
Known as Hannibal the Cannibal after killing a fellow prisoner and leaving the body with a spoon sticking out of its skull, while at Wakefield he murdered two more inmates.
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Having killed them, he handed a guard his bloodied, home-made knife, saying: 'There'll be two short on the roll call.'
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he → kill → call
Until his recent transfer, Maudsley was deemed such a security risk that he was held in an underground glass and Perspex cell at Wakefield, which some believe was indeed the inspiration for Hannibal Lecter's in The Silence Of The Lambs.
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The jail is also home to Mick Philpott, who killed six of his 17 children in a house blaze – and was recently left 'battered and bruised' after a beating by a fellow inmate.
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An official inspection report in September 2025 found there had been a 62 per cent rise in violent incidents at Wakefield, with 183 recorded in the prior year.
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At the time, the inspection found the prison was facing 'significant challenges' as the 'infrastructure was deteriorating' and more younger prisoners were arriving.
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prisoners → find → challenges
Staff shortages had led to 'restricted regimes and prisoners spending longer periods locked in their cells', while 'violence had increased sharply and many prisoners felt unsafe, with no clear strategy in place to address this', according to the report.
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In a survey of inmates last year, 55 per cent said it was easy to get drugs.
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The infrastructure was found to be in a 'very poor condition' with 'shabby' showers and broken boilers and washing machines.
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infrastructure → find → showers
As for emergency call bells in the cells, only a quarter of those quizzed said staff responded within five minutes of them being rung.
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The food fared little better.
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The prison kitchen had been without a gas supply for more than five weeks, while only one in five inmates described the meals as 'good'.
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A new report was issued on June 8 following a fresh inspection in April – which said that since the last report, 'there had been two alleged murders in very close succession'.
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It added: 'Two prisoners had taken their own lives and there had been a further death yet to be classified.
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prisoners → add → lives
…and 11 more, not listed.
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