Three British inmates who stabbed a convicted child killer to death inside a maximum-security prison received life sentences Friday, guaranteeing they’ll spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
Mark Fellows, 45, Lee Newell, 57, and David Taylor, 64, stormed the cell of convicted child killer Kyle Bevan, 33, at HMP Wakefield in northern England in November 2024 and walked out roughly four and a half minutes later, according to surveillance footage obtained by the BBC.
Bevan, who was serving a life sentence for murdering his 2-year-old stepdaughter, was later found dead after suffering more than 25 stab and slash wounds.
Kyle Bevan, who was serving a life sentence for killing his partner’s toddler, was stabbed to death by three inmates. Dyfed-Powys Police / SWNS
At Leeds Crown Court on Friday, the trio received whole-life orders — the UK’s equivalent of life sentences with no chance of parole or release — for killing Bevan.
Judge Justice McGowan imposed new whole-life orders on Fellows and Newell, even though both men were already serving that punishment for previous murders.
McGowan said the three defendants were “congratulatory” after Bevan’s murder, and word that the child killer was dead quickly spread through the prison.
“You chose him as your target as he had been convicted of the murder of a child,” the judge said, the BBC reported.
“Acting together, you wounded him more than 25 times; several of those wounds were fatal.”
Three inmates at HMP Wakefield were seen storming Bevan’s cell before emerging minutes later after the fatal assault. CPS / SWNS
“His last moments must have been terrifying,” she continued, according to the Daily Mail.
“It is certainly outside my experience to have ever had to sentence somebody for a third murder, and in two of these three defendants’ cases, that’s what’s just happened.”
Prosecutors said attackers ambushed Bevan inside his cell and repeatedly stabbed him with makeshift weapons, including one fashioned from metal taken from the back of a television.
After the attack, the inmates placed his body in bed to make it appear he was asleep.
The court heard that Bevan bled to death in his cell before prison staff discovered his body during a roll call the following morning.
Bevan had been serving a life sentence for the murder of his partner’s 2-year-old daughter, Lola James, who died after suffering catastrophic injuries in 2020.
Taylor also received a whole-life order Friday for murdering 24-year-old Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin and attempting to murder a police detective, in addition to killing Bevan.
Apostoloff-Boyarin disappeared after traveling from Manchester to Durham in January 2022.
Taylor pleaded guilty to murdering her earlier this year but has refused to reveal what happened to her body.
Taylor was also handed a whole-life order Friday for the murder of Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin, 24. Greater Manchester Police / SWNS
The court also heard that Taylor stabbed Greater Manchester police detective Darren Bratby during an interview at another prison, after claiming he had information about Apostoloff-Boyarin’s disappearance.
The detective survived the attack and made a full recovery.
Fellows, known as “The Iceman,” was already serving a whole-life sentence for two gangland murders.
Newell was serving a whole-life sentence for murder and had previously been convicted of killing another child killer inside a prison cell in 2013.
England and Wales are believed to hold only around 75 inmates serving whole-life orders, a punishment reserved for the country’s most serious offenders.
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