Kyle Bevan murder trial LIVE as prison staff found weapons after child murderer stabbed to death ‘by killer trio’ – updates

Continuing with Mr Green’s statement, Mr Pitter KC said he checked on landing two where Fellows was residing. He said he spoke to him and Fellows ‘thanked him for being quiet’.

“I found it peculiar that he spoke to me as he normally speaks to me in the day,” he said.

He said as Fellows was a category A prisoner, he was checked hourly. He said he checked on Fellows at midnight and he was lying in his bed, either ‘looking at his TV or looking at the ceiling’.

Mr Green said he checked on Bevan and said he saw him lay on his front. He said Bevan was category B and checks were on roll call. He said Taylor and Newell were checked three or five times a night.

He said Newell was on the CSC (close supervision) unit because he was ‘unsafe to himself and others’. “I know he does not like sex offenders or offenders against children, neither does Fellows,” he said.

“I would say they [Newell and Fellows] are sociable, and friendly together.” Mr Green saoid Fellows was in charge of menus and keeping the area clean.

He added: “I always found him to be polite but he occasionally shouts and rants at others. He is a germaphobe, I recall one occasion when officers went to conduct checks in his cell and did not wear sterile gloves.

“He was unhappy they touched his belongings without wearing sterile gloves. Fellows has a dislike of offenders who committed crimes against children and he does not mix with sex offenders.”

He said Fellows, Taylor and Newell have been seen to spend time together. Mr Green said a new system had been introduced which left prisoners feeling like in a ‘category B jail’.

He said around two weeks before Bevan’s death, he received an application by Fellows to move prisons. “The reason he gave was because Ms Metcalfe was a joke, Ms Metcalfe is the new governor,”| he said.

He said he forwarded this onwards, and was unsure if he received a response.