Three already convicted murderers in Great Britain: Mark Fellows (45), Lee Newell (57) and David Taylor (64) last year in a high-security prison in West Yorkshire stabbed another convicted murderer of a small child, Kyle Bevan, to death with improvised knives. They then covered him in a bed and left him to bleed out, he writes Sky News.
Bevan, 33, was serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years for the murder of Lola James, his partner’s two-year-old daughter, in 2020. Fellows and Newell were already serving life sentences without the possibility of parole when they killed Bevan.
Now, Judge Maura McGowan has handed the three defendants “new and separate” life sentences without the possibility of parole for Bevan’s murder.
Taylor, for Bevan’s death, was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole, in addition to the sentences for the offenses for which he was in remand custody at the time.
Security camera footage showed the three defendants following Bevan to his cell on November 4, 2025, and emerging less than five minutes later, “with the satisfied expression of men who have done their job,” prosecutors said.
Taylor was in custody for the murder of 24-year-old Alicia Apostolof-Boyarin, with whom he was in a relationship but, as he claimed, “got bored of him”, as well as for the attempted murder of a police officer in an interrogation room at another high-security prison.
In February of this year, Taylor pleaded guilty to murdering Apostolof-Boyarin, a week before the start of the trial. Her body was never found and Taylor was the last person known to have been in contact with her on the day she disappeared.
Sixty-four-year-old Taylor previously claimed she was alive and living in another part of the country.
“Yes, I am guilty,” he told the court in Manchester.
He was born in Glossop and previously lived in Ashton-under-Lyne. He knew Apostolof-Boyarin and claimed that she was the girlfriend of his friend’s son.
“I’m an old fashioned criminal”
Taylor denied that he had intended to kill the detective and said he “went crazy” and exploded with rage because the police had “set him up”, but a jury found him guilty of attempted murder.
He told jurors during the trial that he was an “old-fashioned criminal” with a long list of previous convictions and that he had “always been a bit of a brawler”.
In August 2007, he was convicted of aggravated burglary and unlawful possession of an offensive weapon.
Fellows was the only person to appear in court
Newell was jailed for life without parole in 2013 after strangling an inmate who killed a child and then left him in bed – a case which the court said bore an “eerie resemblance” to Bevan’s death. He first ended up in prison for murder in 1989, when he strangled his neighbor because she refused to give him money.
Fellows, a hitman known as “Dexter of Wakefield”, carried out two mob murders and in 2019 received a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Before Bevan’s murder, he requested a transfer from Wakefield because he was unhappy with the conditions in the prison.
On the day of the murder, the cameras recorded Bevan entering his cell, followed immediately by the three defendants.
“It was nice working with you and Iceman”
The three were out of the cell in less than five minutes, “as if nothing had happened.” The footage shows them shaking hands and, according to the prosecution, congratulating each other on the act.
The court heard it was not known “who did what” in the cell, but it was likely someone held Bevan down as he was stabbed 25 times with at least two different weapons.
Newell had an arm injury and Fellows was filmed rolling up his trousers after realizing they were stained with blood. The jury heard that one of the weapons, made from a bent piece of metal from the back of a television, was found outside Bevan’s cell with his blood on it.
However, the weapon used to inflict the fatal injury was not found.
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