Chilling prison CCTV footage shows a trio of murderers, including Mark 'The Iceman' Fellows, laughing and joking before storming a child killer's cell and stabbing him to death.
Murderers Sentenced to Whole Life Orders
Fellows, 45, who previously shot dead 'gangland kingpins' Paul Massey and John Kinsella; David Taylor, 64; and Lee Newell, 57; were handed whole life orders after murdering 33-year-old Kyle Bevan at HMP Wakefield at Leeds Crown Court on Friday (June 19).
They teamed up to murder Bevan, who had been serving a life sentence for killing Lola James, his two-year-old stepdaughter, at the home they shared in Wales.
Details of the Attack
Leeds Crown Court heard Bevan was stabbed 25 times in his cell with improvised weapons in the jail on November 4 last year. After the attack, his body was placed in his bed, covered with a blanket and made to look as if he were asleep.
Bevan was not discovered until the following morning, when he had already been dead for hours and after officers had carried out checks at the door of his cell.
CCTV Footage Shows Inmates Following Child Killer Before Fatal Attack
Prosecutors said the murderous 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.
In the CCTV footage from the prison, shared by the Crown Prosecution Service, David Taylor is highlighted by a red arrow; Lee Newell yellow; and Mark Fellows blue. Kyle Bevan is highlighted by a green marker.
They are shown outside a cell, appearing to laugh and joke before the sickening attack. Fellows is seen wearing a grey vest, shorts, trainers and blue plastic gloves. Newell is wearing a t-shirt, a hooded zip-up top and shorts. Taylor is wearing glasses and a prison-issue tracksuit. Fellows is later seen to be wearing tracksuit bottoms as the gang of three are seen following Bevan into his cell. Bevan is seen nervously looking back at them.
Sentencing Remarks
Sentencing the three on Friday, Mrs Justice McGowan said they each took weapons to the cell. She said they cornered Bevan in a cell and that at least two held his arms as he was stabbed 25 times to the neck and torso. "He was left to bleed to death - his last moments must have been terrifying," she said.
Addressing some members of the jury who had attended to watch the hearing, the judge said: "It is certainly outside of my experience to sentence someone for their third murder. For two out of three cases in this trial, that is what has happened."
Background of the Murderers
Fellows and Newell were in the West Yorkshire prison already serving whole life orders, the most severe sentence which judges can pass in the English criminal justice system, meaning they must serve the rest of their days behind bars.
Fellows was behind bars for murdering Massey and Kinsella following the eruption of gang warfare in Salford. Hitman Fellows was allied with the city's Anti A-Team faction, said to be led by Michael Carroll, with 'Mr Big' Massey considered as being a mentor figure to the alleged leader of the A-Team, Stephen Britton.
Fellows blasted Massey outside his own home with an Uzi sub machine gun in July 2015. Then in May 2018, Fellows shot dead John Kinsella as he walked his dog in Merseyside. Kinsella had carried Massey's coffin at his funeral.
Newell was handed a whole life order in 2013 for murdering child killer Subhan Anwar in HMP Long Lartin in 2013. Anwar, from Huddersfield, was serving a life sentence for the murder of his partner's two-year-old daughter. At the time of the killing in the Worcestershire jail, Newell had already been serving a life sentence for strangling his neighbour, 56-year-old Mary Neal, to death in Norwich in 1988.
Taylor has also admitted murdering Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin, who was reported missing by her family in February 2022. Her body has never been found.
Taylor then tried to murder a Greater Manchester Police officer who had attended HMP Frankland in Durham, where Taylor was then being held, to interview him about Alisha's disappearance. Taylor had claimed to have information about her whereabouts. But during an interview in July 2024, Taylor produced an improvised weapon and stabbed Detective Constable Darren Bratby to the chest, an attack captured on shocking CCTV footage.
