A child killer’s last moments were caught in a chilling CCTV recording which showed how three inmates prepared for the deadly attack. Kyle Bevan was serving time at HMP Wakefield for the brutal murder of his stepdaughter when he was fatally stabbed.
Convicted killers Mark Fellows, Lee Newell, and David Taylor followed Bevan, 33, into his cell before stabbing him 25 times and killing him. The evil trio then tucked Bevan into bed so that he appeared to be sleeping only for prison staff to discover him dead the following morning.
Fellows, 45, Taylor, 64, and Newell, 57, were each handed a whole life order for their part in the murder during a hearing at Leeds Crown Court on Friday, June 19.
Bevan had been serving a whole life sentence after he murdered his two-year-old stepdaughter Lola James in Wales, reports the Manchester Evening News.
View 5 ImagesKyle Bevan(Image: Dyfed-Powys Police / SWNS)
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New footage from inside the prison has now been released by the Crown Prosecution Service following the sentencing. The CCTV captures the cold-blooded murderers laughing and joking before the sickening attack.
Fellows previously shot dead ‘gangland kingpins’ Paul Massey and John Kinsella in Salford and he can be seen in the footage preparing to commit his third murder. Nicknamed ‘The Iceman’ and the ‘Wakefield Dexter’, he is seen wearing blue plastic gloves.
Newell has also now committed three murders after first being sentenced to life for strangling his neighbour, 56-year-old Mary Neal, to death in Norwich in 1988. He was subsequently convicted of the murder of child killer Subhan Anwar in HMP Long Lartin in 2013.
View 5 ImagesLee Newell(Image: West Yorkshire Police / SWNS)
Taylor admitted murdering Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin, who was reported missing by her family in February 2022. Her body has never been found.
He 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.
Prosecutors claimed that the trio wanted to be transferred out of HMP Wakefield and that they disliked vulnerable prisoners – including sex offenders and those who had committed crimes against children.
5View 5 ImagesMark Fellows(Image: West Yorkshire Police / SWNS)
5View 5 ImagesDavid Taylor(Image: West Yorkshire Police / SWNS)
Sentencing the three, Mrs Justice McGowan said they each took weapons to the cell before the attack on Bevan. 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.”
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.
All three defendants were handed a ‘new’ whole life order for Bevan’s murder, meaning they will never be released from prison.
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