Three inmates sentenced to life behind bars for murdering child killer in 5-minute prison attack
Three UK inmates sentenced for murdering child killer Kyle Bevan in prison attack
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118+ best Amazon Prime Day deals, hand-picked and updated live for 2026 World NewsThree inmates sentenced to life behind bars for murdering child killer in 5-minute prison attack
By Adam Silverstein Published June 20, 2026, 2:27 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on GoogleThree British inmates who stabbed a convicted child killer to death inside a maximum-security prison were sentenced Friday to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
Mark Fellows, 45, Lee Newell, 57, and David Taylor, 64 were seen storming the cell of convicted child killer Kyle Bevan, 33, at HMP Wakefield in northern England in November 2024, before walking out roughly four and a half minutes later, according to surveillance footage obtained by the BBC.
Bevan — serving a life sentence for the murder of his 2-year-old stepdaughter — was later found dead after suffering more than 25 stab and slash wounds.
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At Leeds Crown Court on Friday, the trio received whole-life orders — the UK’s equivalent of life sentences with no chance of parole or release — for killing Bevan.
Judge Justice McGowan imposed new whole-life orders on Fellows and Newell despite both men already serving the punishment for previous murders.
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McGowan said the three defendants were “congratulatory” after Bevan’s murder, and that word quickly spread through the prison that the child killer was dead.
“You chose him as your target as he had been convicted of the murder of a child,” the judge said, the BBC reported.
“Acting together, you wounded him more than 25 times; several of those wounds were fatal.”
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“His last moments must have been terrifying,” she continued, according to the Daily Mail.
“It is certainly outside my experience to have ever had to sentence somebody for a third murder, and in two of these three defendants’ cases, that’s what’s just happened.”
Prosecutors said Bevan was ambushed inside his cell and repeatedly stabbed with makeshift weapons, including one fashioned from metal taken from the back of a television.
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After the attack, his body was placed in bed to make it appear he was asleep.
The court heard Bevan bled to death in his cell before his body was discovered during a prison roll call the following morning.
Bevan was serving a life sentence for the murder of his partner’s 2-year-old daughter, Lola James, who died after suffering catastrophic injuries in 2020.
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Taylor was also handed a whole-life order Friday for the murder of 24-year-old Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin and the attempted murder of a police detective, in addition to Bevan’s killing.
Apostoloff-Boyarin disappeared after traveling from Manchester to Durham in January 2022.
Taylor pleaded guilty to murdering her earlier this year but has refused to reveal what happened to her body.
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The court also heard that Taylor stabbed Greater Manchester police detective Darren Bratby during an interview at another prison after claiming he had information about Apostoloff-Boyarin’s disappearance.
The detective survived the attack and made a full recovery.
Fellows, known as “The Iceman,” was already serving a whole-life sentence for two gangland murders.
Newell was serving a whole-life sentence for murder and had previously been convicted of killing another child killer inside a prison cell in 2013.
There are believed to be only around 75 inmates serving whole-life orders in England and Wales, a punishment reserved for the country’s most serious offenders.
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Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'
Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.
The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.
But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.
'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.
'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'
The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.
Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts
But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.
'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.
Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.
'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.
'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.
'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.
'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'
'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.
'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'
