David Spereall & Tom Airey<\/span>Yorkshire<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Three inmates have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a child killer was found dead at a West Yorkshire prison. <\/p>\n Officers were called to HMP Wakefield at 08:25 GMT on Wednesday following reports of a man being found dead in his cell, West Yorkshire Police said. <\/p>\n The Prison Service confirmed the man was 33-year-old Kyle Bevan, who was jailed for life for murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter Lola James in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in 2020.<\/p>\n The force said his death at the high-security jail was being treated as “suspicious”, with investigations continuing to establish the full circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “Three men, who are all serving prisoners, have been arrested on suspicion of murder,” a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n Bevan inflicted “catastrophic” brain injuries on the toddler in a “brutal” assault in her family home, his sentencing hearing in 2023 was told.<\/a><\/p>\n Lola was attacked on the night between 16 and 17 July 2020 while she was in Bevan’s care, and was left with 101 surface injuries on her body.<\/p>\n Judge Mr Justice Martin Griffiths described Bevan’s actions as “an assertion of superiority over the only person he could feel superior to \u2013 a helpless child”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bevan, from Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, was ordered to serve at least 28 years in jail.<\/p>\n Sinead James, Lola’s mother, was sentenced to six years for causing or allowing her daughter’s death at her home.<\/p>\n The incident at the prison comes less than a month after the death of the paedophile singer Ian Watkins, who was fatally stabbed<\/a> at the same facility on 11 October.<\/p>\n A Prison Service spokesperson said: “HMP Wakefield prisoner Kyle Bevan’s death was confirmed on 5 November.<\/p>\n “We are unable to comment further while the police investigate.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In September, an inspection report found levels of violence at HMP Wakefield had increased.<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking at the time, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said it had “taken further action in high-security prisons such as Wakefield to reduce violence”.<\/p>\n Andrea Coomber, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said HMP Wakefield was under similar pressures to other prisons but was “insulated” due to its status. <\/p>\n “Because it is of a higher security clearance, it actually has more guarantees of staffing and resource than lots of other jails have,” she said.<\/p>\n “So in some ways, Wakefield should actually be doing better and be safer.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Dyfed-Powys](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/df22\/live\/744e0080-ba7e-11f0-98a7-ed301ba6f979.png.webp\")
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