Three British inmates sentenced to life behind bars for murdering child killer in prison attack
Three men already jailed for murder will never be released from prison after stabbing a child killer 25 times in his cell.
Mark Fellows, 45, David Taylor, 64, and Lee Newell, 57, used makeshift weapons to attack Kyle Bevan at HMP Wakefield on 4 November.
Bevan was serving a life sentence for murdering his partner's two-year-old daughter Lola James in Pembrokeshire in 2020.
At around 17:30, Fellows, Taylor and Newell ‘cornered’ the 33-year-old and emerged from the cell five minutes later in ‘a satisfied, job-done mood’.
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The court heard that they tucked Bevan into bed to give the impression like he was asleep.
Judge McGowan said Fellows was hovering by Bevan's cell twice that evening, ‘probably to check that he was dead’.
"You chose him as your target as he had been convicted of the murder of a child," she said.
"Acting together you wounded him more than 25 times, several of those wounds were fatal.
"There were congratulations when you returned to your own landing. Word had spread.
"Fellows tried to dispose of his bloodstained trousers. All three had blood on your shoes. All of you had killed before."
Newell was serving time for murdering his female neighbour in 1989 because she didn’t give him money.
In 2013, he then killed a prisoner who had murdered a child, and was given a life order for it.
Fellow was given a whole-life term in 2019 after he was found guilty of two gangland murders - crime figure Paul Massey, 55, in 2015 and mob boss John Kinsella, 53, in 2018.
Taylor was previously sentenced for the murder of Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin, 24, a vulnerable woman he had been in a relationship with.
Ch Insp James Entwistle, senior investigating officer, said of Bevan's murder: "This was a premeditated brutal attack carried out inside a prison by three long-term inmates.
"Fellows, Taylor and Newell's actions showed a complete disregard for life and for the rules designed to keep people safe in custody.
"By their very nature, prisons are designed to deny offenders of their liberty, but they also need to be environments that are kept safe from unlawful violence."
The fatal stabbing of disgraced Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins also took place at HMP Wakefield on 11 October last year.
Serving prisoners Rico Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 44, who both denied murdering Watkins and possessing a knife in prison, are due to be re-tried.
Anish Vij