Three murderers convicted of killing child killer in prison
Mark 'The Iceman' Fellows, 45; David Taylor, 64; and Lee Newell, 57; were convicted of murdering 33-year-old Kyle Bevan in HMP Wakefield following a trial at Leeds Crown Court. The trio were handed whole life terms, meaning they will never be released from prison.
Bevan was serving a life sentence for killing his two-year-old stepdaughter Lola James at their home in Wales. He was stabbed 25 times in his cell with improvised weapons on November 4 last year. After the attack, his body was placed in his bed and covered with a blanket to make it look as if he were asleep.
CCTV footage showed the three category A prisoners following Bevan into his cell one by one. They left the cell less than five minutes later, and Bevan was never seen alive again. His body was not discovered until the following morning, hours after officers had carried out checks at the cell door.
Prosecutors said the trio disliked vulnerable prisoners, including sex offenders and those who had committed crimes against children, and claimed they may have wanted to be transferred out of HMP Wakefield.
Notorious criminals behind the attack
Fellows, known as 'The Iceman', was already serving a whole life order for murdering gangland kingpins Paul Massey and John Kinsella. He shot Massey outside his own home with an Uzi sub machine gun in July 2015 and killed Kinsella as he walked his dog in Merseyside in May 2018.
Newell was handed a whole life order in 2013 for murdering child killer Subhan Anwar in HMP Long Lartin. He had already been serving a life sentence for strangling his neighbor Mary Neal, 56, to death in Norwich in 1988.
Taylor admitted murdering Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin, whose body has never been found. He also tried to murder a Greater Manchester Police officer who attended HMP Frankland to interview him about Alisha's disappearance. During an interview in July 2024, Taylor stabbed Detective Constable Darren Bratby in the chest with an improvised weapon.
Jamie Varley and John McGowan-Fazakerley jailed for murder and abuse of baby
Depraved monster Jamie Varley, who murdered and abused 13-month-old Preston Davey, was handed a whole life order. His partner John McGowan-Fazakerley, who took part in a sex attack on the baby four days before his death, was jailed for 25 years.
Preston died following a final sex attack by former teacher Varley, who treated the baby as his 'personal plaything'. He subjected Preston to ever-increasing physical, psychological and sexual abuse in the four months the baby lived at the house in Staining Road, Blackpool.
McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, turned a blind eye to Varley's abuse and on July 24, 2023, joined in a sickening sexual attack while the little boy slumped over the bars of his cot.
Other criminals jailed this week
Dominic Miller, 40, of Glossop, was jailed for 24 weeks for shoplifting despite being banned from every Tesco and B&M Bargains in Derbyshire under a three-year criminal behaviour order. He stole from Tesco, Heron Foods and Asda.
Amaar Abid, of Oldham, was jailed for 38 weeks for dangerous driving after he drove the wrong way up the M60 while being chased by police. He drove erratically and repeatedly slowed to a crawling pace on the motorway before police put a rolling road block in place.
