Child killer stabbed more than 30 times by inmates in 5-minute prison attack: ‘They left him for dead’

Nypost · Jun 10, 2026 · 367 words · By Anna Young

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Child killer stabbed more than 30 times by inmates in 5-minute prison attack: ‘They left him for dead’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Child killer stabbed more than 30 times by inmates in 5-minute prison attack: ‘They left him for dead’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleA convicted UK child killer was stabbed more than 30 times by fellow inmates in a savage prison-cell attack that lasted five minutes, according to reports.

Common ground

Kyle Bevan – serving a life sentence for the 2020 murder of his two-year-old stepdaughter – was found dead at HMP Wakefield in November after three inmates allegedly followed him into his cell and unleashed the violent attack, a Leeds Crown Court heard…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “his body then discovered until the roll call in the prison the following morning”

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Evidence confirms the body was not discovered until the following morning's roll call.

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web search NEUTRAL — Kyle Thomas Harvey (born May 18, 1993 [3]), known mononymously as Kyle (stylized in all caps) and SuperDuperKyle (formerly known as K.i.D, an acronym for Kyle is Determined), is an American rapper, si…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYLE_(musician)

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web search NEUTRAL — Kyle is a unisex English-language given name. It is a transferred use of the Scottish surname Kyle or of place names such as Kyle, Ayrshire on the southwest coast of Scotland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_(given_name)

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 22, 2026 ... BREAKING: Convicted child killer Kyle Bevan was brutally stabbed more than 30 times by fellow inmates in a savage 5-minute prison attack at ...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ4-UKqviSy/?hl=en

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Claim 2: “Prosecutors said Mark Fellows, 45, David Taylor, 64, and Lee Newell, 57, were captured on surveillance video leaving Bevan’s cell about four and a half minutes later”

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Multiple sources identify Mark Fellows (45), David Taylor (64), and Lee Newell (57) as the attackers and mention surveillance video showing them leaving the cell after approximately 4.5 minutes.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Below is a partial list of fellows of the Royal Society of Arts (formally, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts is entitle…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of Honorary Fellows of The Queen's College, Oxford. Tony Abbott Rowan Atkinson Sir James Ball Sir Michael Barber Sir Richard Barrons Adrian Beecroft Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Christopher…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to ty…
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Claim 3: “prosecutor Jason Pitter told jurors of the fatal Nov. 4 assault”

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Multiple sources confirm the assault occurred on November 4 and identify prosecutor Jason Pitter as the one providing details to the jury.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kyle Howard Rittenhouse (born January 3, 2003) is an American man who gained national attention at age 17 for shooting three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, two fatally, amid protests and riots in response…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Rittenhouse

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kyle Andrew Walker (born 28 May 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for EFL Championship club Burnley. He is widely regarded to be amongst the best full-backs of his …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mark Fellows (nicknamed "The Iceman"; born 5 September 1980) is a British hitman convicted of the murders of John Kinsella and Paul Massey, rival enforcers to the Anti A Team criminal network. At the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fellows_(hitman)

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Claim 4: “A convicted UK child killer was stabbed more than 30 times by fellow inmates in a savage prison-cell attack that lasted five minutes”

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Multiple web search results confirm Kyle Bevan was stabbed over 30 times in an attack lasting approximately 4 minutes and 39 seconds (roughly 5 minutes) at HMP Wakefield.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kyle Sanders is an American bass guitarist who was a member of heavy metal supergroup Hellyeah and is currently a member of Kerry King's solo band. He previously played for Skrew, Medication, Bloodsim…
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Claim 5: “Bevan... was found with stab wounds to his chest and abdomen”

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Web search results explicitly state that Kyle Bevan was found with stab wounds to his chest and abdomen.

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Claim 6: “three inmates allegedly followed him into his cell and unleashed the violent attack, a Leeds Crown Court heard Wednesday as the murder trial kicked off”

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Web search results confirm that three men (Fellows, Taylor, and Newell) entered the cell and that the case was heard at court, with surveillance footage showing them leaving the cell.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christopher Grant Wood (born 7 December 1991) is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and captains the New Zealand national team. Wide…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Stones (born 28 May 1994) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for Serie A club Inter Milan and the England national team. He is known for his …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of prisoners who have received a whole-life order, formerly called a whole-life tariff, through some mechanism in jurisdictions of the United Kingdom. From the introduction of the whole…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoners_with_whole_l…

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Claim 7: “other weapons discovered in Taylor’s cell in a bottle of chili sauce”

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No evidence in the provided search results mentions a bottle of chili sauce or weapons found in David Taylor's cell specifically in that manner.

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Claim 8: “Fellows and Newell were also serving life sentences for murder when they launched the attack”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 9: “Kyle Bevan – serving a life sentence for the 2020 murder of his two-year-old stepdaughter – was found dead at HMP Wakefield in November”

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Multiple sources confirm Kyle Bevan was serving a life sentence for the murder of his two-year-old stepdaughter (Lola James) and died at HMP Wakefield in November.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — His Majesty's Prison Wakefield is a Category A men's prison in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. The prison has been nicknamed the "Monster Mansion" along w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Wakefield

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Claim 10: “Prison guards later found a folded piece of metal with Bevan’s blood on it stashed behind a TV”

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One search result explicitly mentions the murder was committed using makeshift weapons, including 'one made from a metal part from the back of a television'.

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Claim 11: “The trio allegedly gutted the 33-year-old prisoner with a “sharp weapon” and then moved him to his bed”

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While the attack and the perpetrators are corroborated, the specific detail about 'gutting' him and 'moving him to his bed' is not explicitly detailed in the provided search snippets, though the general attack is confirmed.

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web search NEUTRAL — Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971), [1] formerly known by his stage name Marky Mark, [2] is an American actor, producer, and former rapper. His work as a leading man spans the comedy, dr…
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