An urgent investigation has been launched at HMP Wakefield after a child killer was found dead at the high-security prison.
Kyle Bevan, 31, who was banged up for 28 years after brutally murdering his step-daughter, was found in his cell by prison staff.
Officers were called to HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire earlier this morning, just weeks after the alleged murder of former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins.
Following this morning's finding, a West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "Investigations into the man’s death are in their early stages and enquiries are being carried out."
The force has not yet confirmed whether any arrests have been made in connection with the inmate's death.
Bevan, who killed his step-daughter Lola in 2020, searched for information about babies sustaining head impact and loss of consciousness, before taking images and footage of her bruised body.
Prosecutor Caroline Rees KC said that during the early hours of the morning Lola had sustained a catastrophic head injury and that Kyle Bevan was responsible for inflicting it.
Today's death comes less than a month after disgraced rock star Watkins died following an alleged attack at HMP Wakefield, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sexual offences.
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An inquest into the 48-year-old's death heard he died from a stab wound to the neck.
Inmates Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, have been charged with murdering Watkins.
Gedel, who was referred to as Rico Gedel in court, and Dodsworth appeared in court last month after being charged with murder but were not asked to enter pleas.
Dodsworth appeared via video link from HMP Wakefield but Leeds Crown Court heard Gedel had refused to attend remotely as he wanted to appear in person.
Former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins died in HMP Wakefield last month
| PA/SOUTH WALES POLICEJudge Guy Kearl, the Recorder of Leeds, set a provisional date of May 5 for the trial, which is expected to take two to three weeks.
Watkins was jailed for 29 years in December 2013, with a further six years on licence, after admitting a string of sex offences – including the attempted rape of a fan’s baby.
The disgraced singer was arrested following the execution of a drugs warrant at his Pontypridd home on September 21, 2012, when a large number of computers, mobile phones and storage devices were seized.
Analysis of the equipment uncovered Watkins’ depraved behaviour.
In 2019, he was jailed for 10 months on top of the sentence he was serving for child sex offences after he was found guilty of possessing a mobile phone in prison.
Watkins claimed two inmates forced him to hold on to the phone so they could contact women who sent him fan mail in order to use them as a “revenue stream”.
In his evidence, he refused to name the men, but said: “You would not want to mess with them.”
He also said his fellow inmates were “murderers, mass murderers, rapists, paedophiles, serial killers – the worst of the worst”.
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