Chilling CCTV footage has captured the moment three of the UK's most dangerous inmates entered the cell of infamous child killer Kyle Bevan before stabbing him 25 times in a five-minute knife frenzy - and then stood around laughing.
Attack at HMP Wakefield
Mark Fellows, a gangland assassin known as 'The Iceman,' Lee Newell, who had already killed one child murderer in prison, and David Taylor, who stabbed a detective in a police interview, gathered to launch their knife attack on Bevan, 33, in his cell at HMP Wakefield last November. After leaving the cell, they are seen laughing and joking with each other.
Infamous Bevan was serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years for murdering his partner's two-year-old daughter, Lola James, in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in 2020.
The three men were seen on CCTV following Bevan into his cell shortly after 5.30pm on November 4 and emerging less than five minutes later in "a satisfied, job-done mood", prosecutors said.
Background of the Attackers
Fellows and Newell were already serving whole life orders at the time of their fatal attack on Bevan last November. Taylor was on remand at the time of Bevan's stabbing for the murder of missing 24-year-old Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin – a vulnerable woman he was in a relationship with but had grown tired of – and attempting to murder a police officer in an interview room at another high-security jail. He was given a whole life order for the offences.
Bevan was "put to bed" after the attack and was not discovered until the following morning when prison staff were alerted by an inmate that "something was wrong" with him. It was established that he had bled to death after suffering 25 stab wounds inflicted with at least two different weapons.
Conviction and Sentencing
On Thursday, a jury at Leeds Crown Court deliberated for less than three hours before finding Fellows, Newell and Taylor guilty of murder. At Leeds Crown Court today, Newell and Fellows received 'new and separate' whole life terms while Taylor also received a whole life term for the murders of Bevan and Miss Apostoloff-Boyarin and the attempted murder of a police officer.
