3 inmates sentenced to life in prison for murdering a child killer in prison by stabbing him 25 times

Mark Fellows, 45, David Taylor, 64, and Lee Newell, 57, were found guilty of killing Kyle Bevan at HMP Wakefield on 4 November, using makeshift weapons including one made from a metal part from the back of a television.

Fellows and Newell were already serving whole-life orders for previous convictions, with judge Mrs Justice McGowan imposing “new and separate” life terms for them at Leeds Crown Court.

Taylor was given a whole-life order for Bevan’s murder, on top of the offences he was on remand for at the time.

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 Pembrokeshire in 2020.

The court heard how Fellows, Taylor and Newell were seen on CCTV at about 17:30 following Bevan into his cell and “cornered him”.

They put Bevan into bed to give the impression he was asleep, jurors were told, so his death remained undetected until the following morning.

The judge said Fellows was seen near Bevan’s cell twice that evening, “probably to check that he was dead”.

“You chose him as your target as he had been convicted of the murder of a child,” she said.

“Acting together you wounded him more than 25 times, several of those wounds were fatal.”

Judge McGowan added: “There were congratulations when you returned to your own landing. Word had spread.

“Fellows tried to dispose of his bloodstained trousers. All three had blood on your shoes. All of you had killed before.”