Three Men Found GUILTY of Murdering Infamous Child Killer, Stabbing Him 25 Times and Leaving Him 'Tucked in Bed'

THREE lags have been found guilty of murdering a notorious child killer after stabbing him 25 times in a four-minute jail rampage.

Kyle Bevan, 33, bled to death in his cell at maximum-security HMP Wakefield last November.

Kyle Bevan was locked up for murdering Lola James Credit: WNS He inflicted ‘catastrophic’ injuries on the youngster Credit: PA

The monster was serving life for murdering his partner’s two-year-old stepdaughter Lola James in a brutal attack that left her with 101 injuries.

Leeds Crown heard Bevan was followed into his cell by fellow inmates Lee Newell, 57, Mark Fellows, 45, and David Taylor, 63.

The trio emerged four minutes and 39 seconds later displaying “something of a satisfied, job-done mood”, it was said.

They have now been convicted of murdering Bevan following a trial.

Bevan was found dead in his cell at HMP Wakefield Credit: WNS Lola’s injuries were likened to a high speed car crash Credit: PA

Leeds Crown Court heard there was “a lot of tension in the prison at the time” and there had been two other serious attacks in the weeks leading up to Bevan’s death – including Ian Watkins’ killing.

Jurors were told that unlike other jails, vulnerable prisoners were not separated from other inmates at Wakefield.

This meant “main prisoners” such as Fellows, Newell and Taylor “had to mix with, in a distorted moral hierarchy, other criminals that were beneath them” such as child killers.

Contract killer Fellows, known as “The Iceman” had been locked up for murdering gangland kingpins Paul Massey and John Kinsella.

Taylor had been transferred to Wakefield in relation to the murder of an associate and the attempted murder of a police officer while he was in custody.

During the brutal attack last November, Bevan’s heart and major blood vessels were slashed, with one wound cutting through bone.

Jurors were told a folded piece of metal was later found with Bevan’s blood on it, which had been made from a piece of a television.

Opening the case previously, prosecutor Jason Pitter KC, said: “Four minutes and 39 seconds – that is how long it took.

“That is the length of time between Kyle Bevan entering his cell at Wakefield , immediately followed by the defendants, his fellow prisoners, one after the other: Lee Newell, Mark Fellows and David Taylor.

“The prosecution say they followed him in there with real purpose.

“This case is about what that purpose was.”

The court heard Bevan was stabbed “25 times” with a “sharp weapon” in his fourth-floor cell on the prison’s A Wing on November 5 last year.

Mr Pitter said: “Then they left him for dead, one after the other.

“Not before, though, putting him to bed – not our phrase, but a phrase we anticipate you will hear later in the evidence.

“Leaving him as if asleep. And there it was that he, on his bed, bled out. Bled to death, and his body then not discovered until the roll call in the prison the following morning.

“The purpose was clear – to carry out a joint attack on Kyle Bevan to kill him.”

Bevan was locked up for at least 28 years in 2023 for Lola’s sadistic murder in Pembrokeshire, .

The stepdad failed to call an ambulance after attacking the toddler and instead recorded a “disturbing” 22 second film of stricken Lola as he attempted to prop her up.

Doctors later compared her injuries to those suffered in a high-speed car crash.

Tragically, there was not one part of the youngster’s body that wasn’t bruised following a campaign of torture.