The jury heard that many prisoners, including Bevan, were considered vulnerable at the jail due to risk posed by other inmates.<\/p>\n
There was “tension” between vulnerable prisoners, or “VPs”, who made up about three quarters of the population, and other inmates, Pitter said.<\/p>\n
There was also “bullying” of VPs, who tended to be those who had committed offences of “particular moral repugnancy”, such as sex attacks or crimes against children.<\/p>\n
But Pitter said Bevan “kept himself to himself” and was not known to be associated with the defendants in any way.<\/p>\n
In 2023, he had been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 28 years for the murder of Lola James, two, in Haverfordwest.<\/p>\n
She had suffered “catastrophic” brain injuries following a “brutal” assault from Bevan in her family home in July 2020.<\/p>\n
The judge in his trial, Mr Justice Martin Griffiths, described his actions as “an assertion of superiority over the only person he could feel superior to – a helpless child”.<\/p>\n
Bevan’s death came less than a month after paedophile singer Ian Watkins, 48, was fatally stabbed in the neck at the same prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jury heard that many prisoners, including Bevan, were considered vulnerable at the jail due to risk posed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631249","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=631249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}