{"id":23835,"date":"2026-06-19T21:53:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/uk-murderers-handed-life-sentences-for-brutal-prison-killing-of-child-killer-world-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:23:52","slug":"uk-murderers-handed-life-sentences-for-brutal-prison-killing-of-child-killer-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/uk-murderers-handed-life-sentences-for-brutal-prison-killing-of-child-killer-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Murderers Handed Life Sentences for Brutal Prison Killing of Child Killer | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131862636,imgsize-87920,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/cctv-footage.jpg\" alt=\"Watch: CCTV captures UK prison trio following child killer into cell; stab 25 times\" title=\"CCTV Footage\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>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.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>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.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>CCTV footage showed the trio following the convicted Bevan into the cell.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZxRmxMq3j5\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZxRmxMq3j5\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZxRmxMq3j5\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZxRmxMq3j5\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZxRmxMq3j5\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZxRmxMq3j5\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\"\/>Bevan was serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years for the murder of his partner&#8217;s two-year-old daughter, Lola James, in Pembrokeshire in 2020.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Prosecutors said Bevan was likely restrained while being stabbed 25 times with at least two weapons.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>After the attack, the men tucked Bevan into bed and left the cell within five minutes.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Judge imposes new <\/span><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">whole-life orders<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>Sentencing 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.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>Taylor received a whole-life order for Bevan&#8217;s murder in addition to sentences linked to other serious crimes.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never had to sentence someone for a third murder, and in two of these defendants&#8217; cases that&#8217;s what just happened,&#8221; the judge told the court.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">History of violent crimes<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"37\"\/>Newell 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.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"39\"\/>Fellows, known as the &#8220;Wakefield Dexter&#8221;, was serving a whole-life term for two gangland murders committed as a contract killer.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"41\"\/>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.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"43\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/uk\/watch-cctv-captures-uk-prison-trio-following-child-killer-into-cell-stab-25-times\/articleshow\/131862265.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}