Mark 'The Iceman' Fellows, a convicted hitman, has been found guilty of murdering a child killer inside a maximum-security prison. Fellows, along with David Taylor, 64, and Lee Newell, 57, was convicted of killing 33-year-old Kyle Bevan at HMP Wakefield.
The Murder of Kyle Bevan
Bevan was serving a life sentence for murdering his two-year-old stepdaughter, Lola James, in Wales. He was stabbed 25 times with improvised weapons on November 4 last year. After the attack, his body was placed in his bed to appear as if he was sleeping. CCTV showed the three category A prisoners following Bevan into his cell and leaving within five minutes. Bevan was not discovered until the following morning, despite officers checking his cell door repeatedly.
Motive and Background
The motive remains unclear, but prosecutors suggested the killers disliked vulnerable prisoners, including sex offenders and those who committed crimes against children. They may have wanted to be transferred out of HMP Wakefield, where vulnerable prisoners mixed with the general population. The prison is nicknamed 'Monster Mansion' due to infamous inmates like Harold Shipman.
The Killers' Histories
Fellows and Newell were serving whole life orders. Fellows was convicted for murdering Paul Massey and John Kinsella during gang warfare in Salford. He shot Massey with an Uzi submachine gun in 2015 and killed Kinsella in 2018. Newell received a whole life order for murdering child killer Subhan Anwar in 2013, having already been serving life for strangling Mary Neal in 1988.
David Taylor pleaded guilty to murdering Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin, whose body has never been found, and attempted murder of a police officer. He stabbed Detective Constable Darren Bratby during an interview at HMP Frankland in 2024. Taylor has not yet been sentenced for these crimes.
