Kyle Bevan, the British prisoner convicted of murdering two-year-old Lola James, was stabbed to death at Wakefield prison in West Yorkshire by three other inmates. Prosecutors said the attackers entered his cell, assaulted him for less than five minutes with improvised weapons, then placed his body on the bed to make it look as if he were sleeping and delay discovery.
Bevan, 33, was serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2023 of murdering Lola James in 2020. The girl was found with more than 100 injuries, and the court ruled that Bevan had brutally attacked her and caused the fatal head injury. He had received a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years.
The three attackers were identified as Mark Fellows, Lee Newell and David Taylor. The court heard that they followed Bevan to his fourth-floor cell and stabbed him more than 20 times, including in the chest and heart area, using improvised weapons, one of which included a metal part taken from a television. They did not call for help, and the body was found only the next morning during the prisoner count. Prosecutors said they killed him because of the crime for which he had been imprisoned, and the judge described the attack as calculated and cruel. Taylor was given a whole-life order, while Fellows and Newell were already serving whole-life sentences for previous murder convictions, meaning none of the three is expected ever to be released.
The killing renewed concern over violence at Wakefield, which is known in Britain as the “Monster Mansion” because of the number of dangerous inmates held there. Just weeks earlier, in October 2025, former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, convicted of serious child sex offences, was also murdered at the same prison. The case has added to wider alarm inside the British prison system over inmates serving very long sentences who may see attacks on hated prisoners as a way to gain status and power.
