Child killer stabbed to death in his cell ‘with broken piece of TV set’

Undated handout photo issued by Dyfed-Powys Police of Kyle Bevan who has been sentenced to life for the murder of Lola James. Issue date: Tuesday April 25, 2023. PA Photo. Kyle Bevan inflicted "catastrophic" brain injuries on Lola in the early hours of July 17 2020. Lola died in hospital four days later. Bevan, 31, denied harming the girl, claiming the family dog had pushed her down the stairs, but was convicted of the killing by a jury at Swansea Crown Court earlier in April. See PA story COURTS Lola. Photo credit should read: Dyfed-Powys Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
Bevan was convicted last year of murdering his step-child and was serving a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 28 years (Picture: PA)
A child killer was stabbed 25 times in his prison cell and left to bleed to death in his bed, a court has heard.

Kyle Bevan, 33, was being held at HMP Wakefield, a high-security prison in west Yorkshire, when he was attacked on November 4 last year.

Three fellow inmates, Mark Fellows, 45, Lee Newell, 57, and David Taylor, 64, are all on trial accused of murder.

Bevan was serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years for murdering his step-child, jurors heard.

Jason Pitter KC, prosecuting, showed them CCTV footage of Bevan entering his cell, followed by the three defendants who, he said, came out four minutes and 39 seconds later.

Mr Pitter said the trio emerged displaying ‘something of a satisfied, job-done mood’.

The prosecutor said Bevan was put in his bed after the attack and was not discovered until the following morning when it was found he had bled to death.

A general view of HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire, where Peter Sullivan is due to be released after having his murder conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal. Mr Sullivan, spent 38 years in prison for the murder of florist and part-time barmaid Diane Sindall, 21, who was brutally killed after she left work in Bebington, Merseyside, in August 1986, He was convicted in November 1987 of her murder. Picture date: Tuesday May 13, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Sullivan. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
At the time of Bevan’s death, around 77% of the inmates at Wakefield were classed as vulnerable prisoners (Picture: PA)
He had suffered 25 stab wounds which penetrated his jugular vein, aorta and his heart, plus other injuries which are thought to have been caused by a different pointed weapon.

Mr Pitter said a folded piece of metal was later found with Bevan’s blood on it, which had been made from a piece of a television.

He told the jury of seven women and five men that, at the time of Bevan’s death, around 77% of the inmates at Wakefield were classed as vulnerable prisoners.

The prosecutor said that, unlike in other prisons, vulnerable inmates were not separated from main prisoners, and the wing had an ‘open door’ policy which allowed inmates to freely interact during ‘association’.

Mr Pitter told the jury: ‘Whilst there may be an obvious temptation to question the need and wisdom of that regime, the mixing of the prisoners, that is not a question for you in this trial.

‘What it did, though, was to contribute to a situation where there was tension, in an obvious direction, between those groups of prisoners.’

The trial continues.

 

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