Three men imprisoned in England have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release after stabbing a fellow inmate 25 times in his cell at HMP Wakefield. The victims were Mark Fellows, 45; David Taylor, 64; and Lee Newell, 57 — all convicted of murdering 33-year-old Kyle Bevan on 4 November 2025.
A Brutal, Pre-Meditated Attack
Surveillance footage showed the three men laughing outside Bevan’s cell before entering and cornering him inside. Using makeshift weapons—including one fashioned from a metal component taken from the back of a television—they stabbed him repeatedly. After killing him, they placed his body on the bed to make it appear he was sleeping, delaying the discovery of his death.
Judge McGowan noted that Fellows had approached Bevan’s cell twice that night — likely to confirm he was dead. She told the defendants: “You chose him as your target because he had been convicted of killing a child.” She added that they received congratulations upon returning to their wing, and news of the killing had already spread.
Backgrounds of the Perpetrators
Both Fellows and Newell were already serving life sentences for prior murders. Fellows was convicted in 2019 for two high-profile killings linked to organized crime: Paul Massey, a notorious gang figure, and John Kinsella, described in court as a ‘mafia intermediary.’ Newell, first imprisoned in 1989 for strangling his neighbour over a money dispute, received a life sentence in 2013 for murdering another inmate who had killed a child.
Taylor, meanwhile, was serving a 20-year sentence for the 2022 murder of his 24-year-old partner, Alisa Apostolov-Bojiarin, and an additional 30-year term for attempting to kill a police officer while in custody.
The Victim’s Crime
Kyle Bevan had been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 28 years for the 2020 murder of two-year-old Lola James — the toddler daughter of his partner — in Pembrokeshire. His crime had drawn widespread public outrage, contributing to the motive cited by the judge.