Three prisoners charged with murder of child killer Kyle Bevan | UK news
Three prisoners have been charged with murdering a convicted child murderer in a high-security West Yorkshire prison.
Kyle Bevan, 33, was found dead in his cell at HMP Wakefield on Wednesday morning. He was two-and-a-half years into a minimum 28-year prison sentence for murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter Lola James at the family home in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in 2020.
Wakefield is a category A prison and one of the 10 highest security prisons in the UK.
West Yorkshire police said they were called to the prison at 8.25am on Wednesday after receiving reports that a man had been found dead in his cell.
Mark Fellows, 45, Lee Newell, 56, and David Taylor, 63, were charged with Bevan’s murder. Police said they all described themselves as white British men and were being held at HMP Wakefield.
The three men were detained and will appear at Leeds magistrates’ court on Friday.
Last month former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, a convicted pedophile, was also stabbed to death in the same prison.
Watkins, of Pontypridd, was sentenced to 29 years in prison in December 2013, with a further six years on licence, after admitting a string of sexual offenses, including the attempted rape of a fan’s baby.
Inmates Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, are accused of killing Watkins and will go to trial next May.
During Bevan’s sentencing in April 2023, the court heard he had caused the type of injuries usually seen in car crash victims or people falling from a significant height. He beat his stepdaughter into a coma, a judge heard.
Lola, described in court as a “happy, beautiful and busy little girl”, was found to have 101 external injuries, “catastrophic” head trauma and severe damage to both eyes.
The judge at Swansea crown court, Mr Justice Griffiths, said: [Bevan] He started hurting Lola around midnight and continued until she lost consciousness at 6.30am. “This was a sustained, deliberate and very violent attack.”
A prison inspector recently reported to HMP Wakefield: Published in SeptemberIt found that “levels of violence were increasing and many prisoners felt unsafe”.
The statement added: “There was little room for work and educational activities and the regime was not effectively managed; approximately half of the population was locked up during the working day. The prison infrastructure was in decline and required investment; security, living conditions and the functioning of the workshops were affected.”
