Child killer Kyle Bevan was left 'tidily tucked up in bed' after being stabbed 25 times in prison cell by 'three inmates who knew what they were doing', court hears

Three of Britain’s most dangerous prisoners have been found guilty of murdering a reviled child killer inside one of the country's highest-security jails.

Gangland assassin Mark Fellows, known as ‘The Iceman’ or ‘Wakefield Dexter’, Lee Newell – who previously murdered another child killer in jail – and fellow convicted murderer David Taylor ambushed Kyle Bevan, 33, in his cell at HMP Wakefield on November 5 last year.

Bevan, serving life for the murder of his partner's two-year-old daughter, was stabbed and slashed more than 25 times in a frenzy lasting almost five minutes before his killers arranged his body to make it appear he was asleep and 'tidily tucked up in bed.'

He was left to bleed out during the night and his body was not discovered until the following morning during checks at the troubled Category A jail, nicknamed 'Monster Mansion'.

Following just two hours of deliberations, jurors found Fellows, 45, Newell, 57, and Taylor, 63, guilty of murder today after a trial at Leeds Crown Court.

As the verdict was read out, one of the defendants could be heard saying: 'It was worth it. Glad I tortured him now.'

The men will be sentenced on Friday.

Fellows was nicknamed ‘The Iceman’ because of his calm exterior and ruthlessness in carrying out so-called ‘contract killings’ for gangsters in the north west of England.

He was already serving a whole-life tariff for the gangland assassinations of Salford 'Mr Big' John Massey and his Merseyside enforcer John Kinsella.

Fellows fired 18 bullets with an Uzi submachine gun at Massey in July 2015 before gunning down Kinsella three years later while he was out walking his dogs in St Helens.

He later said in letters from prison that he hid in a graveyard wearing a fake beard and mask until Massey arrived home and fired bullets at his feet so he ‘danced like a cowboy’ before firing the fatal shots.

He also said, given his whole life term, he could ‘kill people… if I need to.’

Kyle Bevan was serving 28 years behind bars after subjecting two-year-old Lola James to a fatal assault at her home in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in 2020

Bevan murdered Lola James having inflicted 'catastrophic' injuries on the two-year-old, later claiming a dog had pushed her down the stairs

Mark Fellows was known as 'The Iceman' or 'Wakefield Dexter' because of his ruthlessness in dispatching fellow criminals

The killer was also referred to by Taylor as the 'Wakefield Dexter' - a nod to the fictional television vigilante serial killer who targets criminals.

Newell, meanwhile, had previously murdered another child killer inside his prison cell and left him dead on a bed.

He took Subhan Anwar, 24, hostage in his cell at HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire in February 2013 before strangling him to death with his own tracksuit bottoms.

The court heard there was a 'chilling similarity to that and the circumstances of Kyle Bevan’s death.'

Newell has been in prison since the late 1980s after tricking his way into the Norwich home of 56-year-old Mary Neal, whom he strangled to death before escaping with £60.

In 2014, Newell lost an eye after being attacked by double murderer Gary Vinter in the exercise yard at HMP Woodhill.

He was subsequently awarded £85,000 after bringing legal action against the Ministry of Justice.

The least well-known of the murderous trio, Taylor is a convicted armed robber and career criminal described by one former associate as ‘one of the most dangerous men in the entire prison system’.

He joined in the attack on Kyle Bevan while being held on remand for the murder of a 24-year-old woman last seen shopping at an Asda supermarket in 2022.

Following today’s guilty verdicts, it can be reported for the first time that he subsequently admitted murdering Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin.

She was last seen shopping near her home in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, with police later releasing CCTV footage of her walking through the supermarket with an unidentified man on January 17, 2022.

Police established that Alisha – who lived with her great-grandfather, and was described by detectives as ‘vulnerable’ due to being ‘alcohol-dependent’ - was then driven to Durham in a distinctive gold-coloured VW Passat.

Lee Newell has been in prison since the late 1980s after tricking his way into the Norwich home of 56-year-old Mary Neal, whom he strangled to death before escaping with £60

Newell lost an eye and suffered a fractured skull and a severe brain injury in an assault by double killer Gary Vinter at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes in November 2014

As David Taylor was transferred out of Wakefield, he was heard to shout by a nurse in the vicinity of Newell: 'Nice working with you and the Iceman.'

She was never seen alive again, with police later saying they believed she had come to ‘serious harm’. It is thought that her body has still not been found.

As Taylor was transferred out of Wakefield, he was heard to shout by a nurse in the vicinity of Newell: 'Nice working with you and th…