Overview
- Leeds Crown Court convicted Mark Fellows, Lee Newell and David Taylor of murdering fellow prisoner Kyle Bevan and on June 19 handed each of them new whole‑life orders that bar normal release.
- Judges and jurors heard the attackers cornered Bevan in his cell, inflicted 25 stab wounds to his neck and torso and left him to bleed to death before he was found the next morning.
- The Crown Prosecution Service released CCTV showing the three men entering and leaving Bevan’s cell in roughly four and a half minutes and recorded them laughing before the assault.
- Searches recovered items bearing Bevan’s blood and a sharpened piece of metal fashioned into an improvised weapon, and prosecutors said the trio targeted vulnerable prisoners including sex offenders and those convicted of crimes against children.
- Two attackers, Fellows and Newell, were already serving whole‑life orders and Taylor had admitted a separate murder and previously stabbed a detective, and the case has intensified scrutiny of cell allocations, prisoner transfers and safety procedures in high‑security jails.