Three men imprisoned in the UK have been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole after murdering a fellow inmate by stabbing him 25 times in his cell at HMP Wakefield prison. The convicted killers are Mark Fellows, 45; David Taylor, 64; and Lee Newell, 57.
The Victim and the Crime
Their victim was 33-year-old Kyle Bevan, who had himself been serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years for the 2020 murder of two-year-old Lola James — the young daughter of his partner — in Pembrokeshire.
Surveillance footage showed the three men laughing outside Bevan’s cell on 4 November 2025 before following him inside and cornering him. Five minutes later, they emerged with what the court described as “a sense of satisfaction.” After the attack, they placed Bevan’s body on his bed to simulate sleep — an attempt to delay the discovery of his death.
Weapons and Motive
The attackers used improvised weapons, including one fashioned from a metal component taken from the back of a television set. Judge McGowan told the court that Fellows had approached Bevan’s cell twice that night — likely to confirm he was dead. She added: “You chose him as your target because he had been convicted of killing a child. You received congratulations when you returned to your wing — the news had already spread.”
Criminal Histories
Both Fellows and Newell were already serving life sentences for prior murders. Fellows was convicted in 2019 for two high-profile killings in the UK’s organised crime world — including that of notorious gangland figure Paul Massey and intermediary John Kinsella. Newell was first imprisoned in 1989 for strangling his neighbour over a money dispute, and received a life sentence in 2013 for killing another inmate who had murdered a child.
Taylor, meanwhile, was sentenced in 2022 to 20 years for murdering his 24-year-old partner, Alisa Apostolov-Boyarin, and received an additional 30-year sentence for attempting to kill a prison officer while incarcerated.
The case underscores serious concerns about safety and oversight within the UK prison system — particularly regarding inmates with histories of extreme violence housed together.