Dating app conman boasted he beat up baby killer in jail as 'you don't hit kids'

17 December 2023 , 14:09

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Lloyd Neels was cleared of causing grievous bodily harm after he attacked Sean Sadler (Image: BPM Media)

A Plenty of Fish conman beat up notorious baby killer Sean Sadler in jail and then bragged about the "vicious attack" on Instagram, a court has heard.

Lloyd Neels, 36, said he "sorted" Sadler who was the "talk of the prison" whilst on remand for the suspected murder of toddler Lilly Hanrahan, which he was later convicted of the following year at HMP Birmingham.

Neels said he had only been an inmate in the prison for a few days when he decided to launch an attack on Sadler on November 10, 2020. A few months later, he uploaded an image of his charges on his Instagram account named 'Justice for Dads Birmingham' and captioned it: "Justice for Lilly Hanrahan RIP I f***** him up for you don't you worry little one #prisoncharges".

Sean Sadler was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 20 years for murdering Lilly Hanrahan (BPM Media)

Lilly Hanrahan was tragically killed in November 2017 (BPM Media)

Before the incident took place, the 36-year-old was slapped with a suspended sentence for theft after he seduced a woman on the dating app and stole her Audi after they got into a relationship. He then flogged the car to a drug dealer for £8,000 after he persuaded the woman to keep her keys in the ignition while she went shopping in Tesco in Hodge Hill. Neels then proceeded to block her social media accounts. Although he was given a 16-month term suspended for two years in the May, he was remanded for going against his restraining order by the November, reports Birmingham Live.

Once inside the prison, he decided to target Sadler and "meted out his own summary justice" when Sadler was on a cleaning job in N Wing. The notorious inmate was on remand having been charged with the murder of Lilly in 2017. Sadler had said in a statement that his cleaning role had given him a purpose. CCTV captured Neels approach from behind, punching him to the head and then kicking him at least twice while he was on the ground. A prison guard dragged him away while Sadler got back to his feet with his face bloodied. He sustained an injury to his eye and broken cheekbones.

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Sadler had been carrying out his cleaning job on the wing at the time of the incident. In a statement he said: "I know I was attacked from behind and the next thing I remember I was being looked after by medical staff. I didn't see the person who attacked me. I have no knowledge of how it happened. I know I went to hospital where cuts to my face were treated. I was also told I have fractures to my cheek. I have no idea why someone would attack me. I have not had an argument with anyone recently. What happened was totally unprovoked."

He said in court he was proud of the attack saying "how do you think that little girl felt?" in relation to Lilly. Neels said: "I admit to sorting him but my intention wasn't to cause significant harm. In jail you can easily get knives. If my intention was to cause significant harm I would have got a blade and got him in a cell." He added he felt Sadler should have been kept "separate from normal folk". The 36-year-old, from Otter Croft, Shard End was cleared of causing grievous bodily harm with intent following a trial. But he had already admitted a lesser offence of inflicting grievous bodily harm. He will be sentenced at a later date having given evidence on the first day of the proceedings only to fail to show for the rest of the trial, prompting a warrant for his arrest.

In March 2021 Sadler, from Northfield, was convicted of wounding and murdering Lilly. He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 20 years. The toddler's biological mother was a heroin addict resulting in her being placed in the care of a guardian, who Sadler was in a relationship with. In 2017 he regularly subjected Lilly to beatings while babysitting her alone. In November that year he carried out a brutal fatal attack and took a picture of the unconscious girl on the sofa two hours before calling an ambulance. Sadler later sought to divert blame away from himself and onto Lilly's guardian as well as the nursery she attended. All along he was the perpetrator of the girl's injuries 'hiding in plain sight', the sentencing judge said.

Carl Jackson