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Kyle Bevan murder trial LIVE as Mark Fellows and two prisoners stabbed child murderer ’25 times’ in HMP Wakefield
He says there were ‘particular issues’ in the prison at the time of the killing of Bevan.
The prison was made up of 77 per cent vulnerable prisoners and 23 per cent ‘main prisoners’.
The main prisoners had become of a ‘different calibre’, Mr Pitter says, in that there were more prisoners involved in ‘more serious offences such as gangland offences and violence including murder’.
Jurors hear that vulnerable prisoners and main prisoners would mix at Wakefield prison, and that there was an ‘open door policy’ for cells during association times, in comparison to other cells which had a ‘closed door policy’.
Mr Pitter says that Bevan was killed in his own cell. He says there was ‘tension’ between vulnerable and main prisoners.
He says; “Main prisoners indicated that they didn’t want to be housed in the same wing as vulnerable prisoners, particularly those who were sex offenders or those who had committed offences against children. There was also bullying of vulnerable prisoners.”
He said there was an ‘element of fear’ among vulnerable prisoners.
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