{"id":246387,"date":"2025-11-06T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246387\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:34:10","slug":"prisoner-serving-life-for-murdering-toddler-found-dead-in-his-cell-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246387\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner serving life for murdering toddler found dead in his cell | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A prisoner serving a life sentence for killing his stepdaughter has been found dead in his cell.<\/p>\n

Kyle Bevan was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years for attacking two-year-old Lola James in her home in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, on 17 July 2020. She died four days later.<\/p>\n

Bevan, 33, from Aberystwyth, was found dead on Wednesday morning in his cell at HMP Wakefield, police said.<\/p>\n

“Investigations into the man’s death are in their early stages and enquiries are being carried out,” West Yorkshire Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Swansea Crown Court heard evidence that Lola had suffered 101 separate injuries to her body<\/a>, including a “catastrophic” brain injury.<\/p>\n

\"Lola<\/p>\n

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\n Lola James. Pic: PA<\/p>\n

Bevan claimed Lola had fallen down the stairs after the family dog pushed her.<\/p>\n

Her mother, Sinead James, was sentenced to six years for causing or allowing the death of a child.<\/p>\n

A child practice review, commissioned by the Mid and West Wales Safeguarding Children Board, found that an assessment of Lola’s needs was “not properly undertaken” prior to her death.<\/p>\n

Child practice reviews are conducted when a child dies or suffers a serious injury and was neither on the child protection register nor a “looked-after child” during the six months before the event.<\/p>\n

\"Sinead<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Sinead James<\/p>\n

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The review also identified “a number of missed opportunities by the health visiting service”.<\/p>\n

James had not agreed to any home visits during the five-month period from 15 February 2020 to 16 July 2020.<\/p>\n

“In future cases, far more probing and challenge is needed by health visitors,” the review found.<\/p>\n

‘Monster’ who ‘needs to rot in hell’<\/p>\n

During the trial, James described Bevan as a “monster” who “needs to rot in hell” for taking her daughter’s life.<\/p>\n

“If I had got him out of the house, my daughter would still be alive today,” she said.<\/p>\n

Judge Mr Justice Griffiths said he was sure Bevan “was responsible for multiple assaults on the children before he murdered Lola”.<\/p>\n

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Bevan “didn’t get emergency help, he didn’t wake Lola’s mum up. Instead, he tried to cover his tracks,” the judge said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prisoner serving a life sentence for killing his stepdaughter has been found dead in his cell. Kyle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-246387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}