Lost Prophets News: A 29-year old man spent the weekend resigning himself to the fact that all the money he had saved up to put neon lights under his car was now going towards tattoo removal.

“The minute I showed my mum that tattoo she’d told me I’d regret it,” said Matthew Morren of Belper, Derbyshire. “I had no idea how she right was.”

Hundreds of Lost Prophets fans up and down the country have been destroying their memorabilia, deleting music files and turning prized tour t-shirts inside out, as the Welsh rocker’s lead singer vies with Gary Glitter for the top spot in music’s hall of shame.

“The alternative is just to change it into something that people won’t beat me up for,” Morren continued. “It looks a bit like the Conservative Party torch doesn’t it?”