Three prisoners have been found guilty of murdering a child killer who was stabbed to death in his cell and left “tidily tucked up in bed”. Kyle Bevan was stabbed 25 times during an attack by convicted killers Mark Fellows, Lee Newell and David Taylor at high-security HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
Bevan, 33, was serving a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 28 years for murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter, Lola James, in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in 2020. The three defendants were seen on CCTV following Bevan into his cell after 5.30pm on November 4 and emerging less than five minutes later in “a satisfied, job-done mood”, prosecutors said.
He was “put to bed” after the attack and was not discovered until the following morning when prison staff were tipped off by an inmate that “something was wrong with Bevan”. It was found he had bled to death after suffering 25 stab wounds caused by at least two different weapons.
On Thursday, Fellows, 45, Newell, 57, and Taylor, 64, were found guilty of murdering Bevan after a jury at Leeds Crown Court deliberated for less than three hours.
