UMVA has learned that a shocking murder took place in a high-security prison cell, leaving a trail of questions about the safety and security of vulnerable inmates.
The victim, Kyle Bevan, a child killer serving a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 28 years for murdering his partner's two-year-old daughter, Lola James, was brutally murdered by three inmates, Mark Fellows, Lee Newell, and David Taylor, at HMP Wakefield.
According to information obtained by UMVA, the three defendants had a history of hostility towards people who had committed offences against children, and Fellows and Newell had expressed a desire to be transferred away from Wakefield, where they were forced to interact with prisoners they considered to be "beneath them".
The regime at Wakefield prison allowed "main prisoners" like Fellows, Newell, and Taylor to mix with vulnerable inmates, including child killers like Bevan, who kept to himself and often asked to be locked in his cell, but on the day of his death, the three defendants followed him to his cell, with Taylor seen taking something from his waistband as he entered.
UMVA can exclusively reveal that Taylor was given a whole life order for Bevan's death, in addition to the offences he was on remand for, including the murder of 24-year-old Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin, a vulnerable woman he was in a relationship with, and attempting to murder a police officer in an interview room at another high-security jail.
The brutal murder has raised serious concerns about the safety and security of vulnerable prisoners in the UK's prison system, with many questioning how such a heinous crime could take place behind bars.
The three defendants, Lee Newell, Mark Fellows, and David Taylor, have been found guilty of murdering Kyle Bevan, and their actions have sent shockwaves through the prison system and the wider community.
