Three convicted murderers have been handed life sentences for killing a fellow inmate inside a high-security prison in northern England, after a court found they had stabbed him to death and left him bleeding in his cell.A jury convicted Mark Fellows, 45, Lee Newell, 57, and David Taylor, 64, of murdering 33-year-old Kyle Bevan at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire in November last year.CCTV footage showed the trio following the convicted Bevan into the cell.Bevan was serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years for the murder of his partner’s two-year-old daughter, Lola James, in Pembrokeshire in 2020.Prosecutors said Bevan was likely restrained while being stabbed 25 times with at least two weapons.After the attack, the men tucked Bevan into bed and left the cell within five minutes.Judge imposes new whole-life ordersSentencing the trio, Mrs Justice McGowan imposed fresh whole-life orders on Fellows and Newell, who were already serving such sentences and would never be released.Taylor received a whole-life order for Bevan’s murder in addition to sentences linked to other serious crimes.“I’ve never had to sentence someone for a third murder, and in two of these defendants’ cases that’s what just happened,” the judge told the court.History of violent crimesNewell was first jailed for murder in 1989 after strangling a female neighbour who refused to give him money. In 2013, he received a whole-life order for strangling another prisoner who had been convicted of murdering a child.Fellows, known as the “Wakefield Dexter”, was serving a whole-life term for two gangland murders committed as a contract killer.Taylor had recently been transferred to Wakefield and was awaiting trial for the murder of Apostoloff-Boyarin and the attempted murder of a police officer. Prosecutors said he frequently boasted about his ability to make weapons from everyday objects.
