Paul Massey and John Kinsella murders: Hitman Mark Fellows sentenced to whole life term for gangland killings

A hitman has been sentenced to a whole life jail term for the murders of gangland ‘Mr Big' Paul Massey and mob enforcer John Kinsella.

Mark Fellows, 38, nicknamed The Iceman, murdered Salford mobster Paul Massey with an Uzi machine gun outside his home in the city in July 2015.

Father-of-five Massey, 55, a notorious "Mr Big" crime figure in Salford and beyond, was blasted at 18 times, hit five times and died on his doorstep.

Three years later, Massey's friend and gang associate, John Kinsella, 53, a martial arts expert and mob enforcer from Liverpool, was murdered by Fellows in a second "cold-blooded" execution.

Kinsella, whose help footballer Steven Gerrard called on to scare off a Liverpool gangster known as The Psycho who had been "terrorising" him, was walking his dogs with his pregnant partner, Wendy Owen, near their home in Rainhill, Merseyside, on May 5 last year.

Fellows cycled up, shooting his victim twice in the back with a Webley six-shot revolver before standing over him to fire twice more into the back of his head from close range.

Fellows was convicted of both murders on Wednesday following an eight week trial at Liverpool Crown Court.

On Thursday he was sentenced to a whole-life term by Mr Justice William Davis.

Additional reporting by Press Association.