Ian Watkins has admitted to attempting to rape a baby, and 12 other sex-offence charges hours before the commencement of his trial at the Cardiff crown court in Wales.

This, from the Guardian:

Watkins, whose former band has sold around 3.5m albums, admitted 13 offences over five years, including attempting to rape one of the children and conspiring to rape the other.

The court was told that the two women sexually abused their children at the behest of Watkins and were prepared to make the children available to him for sex. The prosecution said the attempted rape happened while Watkins was staying at a four-star hotel in west London shortly after appearing on BBC Radio 1.

When police investigated Watkins, who is from Pontypridd, they found a secret disc. GCHQ experts helped them get access to the material on the disc, which featured videos of sexual abuse, including the attempted rape.

Watkins, a user of crack cocaine and crystal meth, maintained he could not remember the incident but the court was told this could have been because he was high on drugs. It emerged he had also discussed forcing his victims to take drugs – and one of them was found to have been exposed to crystal meth.

Read the whole, horrible thing here.

[Source : Guardian]