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A hitman nicknamed ‘The Ice Man’ who shot Salford to death ‘Mr. Big ‘Paul Massey was waiting for him’ night after night ‘in a cemetery, it was reported.
Mark Fellows, 40, is serving a lifetime fee for the murder of Massey and his partner John Kinsella.
New details of the shocking killings appear in letters he wrote from jail, reports the Sunday Mirror.
The letters are said to be contained in a crime book ‘Salford Lads, The Rise And Fall Of Paul Massey’, due to be published in January.
In the letters, Fellows reportedly recounted how he hid in a cemetery outside Massey’s home in Clifton, Salford, wearing a false beard and “army gear” until he got home.
Fellows says he also shot Massey’s feet during his murderous attack and jokes about shooting a police officer who interrupted one of his vigilantes.
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The sunday mirror claims that Fellows wants to die of cancer rather than spend decades in London’s harsh Belmarsh jail, and that he is prepared to kill again in prison, knowing that his sentence cannot be increased.
The beatings were the bloody culmination of a tit-for-tat drug war between Massey’s ‘A-Team’ and a rival Salford gang known as the ‘Anti-A-Team’.
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In the letters, Fellows reveals how, night after night, he lay hidden in a graveyard with an Uzi submachine gun waiting for the perfect moment to kill 55-year-old Massey, reports the Sunday Mirror.
Fellows writes: “The night before I was waiting for Massey and a police officer showed up when I was lying there.
“I thought he was going to have to, but he never saw me. Ha ha ha!”
Massey, a grandfather of eight, was killed in front of his home in July 2015. The cemetery is across the street.
Fellows says that even though he was dressed in a combat uniform, Massey still saw him as he got out of his BMW, according to reports.
In a murder trial at Liverpool Crown Court, 18 rounds were said to have been fired, four of them into Massey’s chest.
Fellows pleaded not guilty to the two murders, but was found guilty.
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From Massey, the letters reveal: “I parked my truck on the property, my bike was in the back.
“I was wearing my mountain bike gear. I walked over to Paul Massey’s house and put my bike in the bushes.
“I came to church, put on my army clothes and put on a false beard. I was lying in the cemetery, Massey’s house in front of me.
“[Massey] he saw me, so I shot him from across the road, but missed.
“When I crossed, he was behind the containers, hiding.
“I didn’t want to get close, so I backed up and fired four times.”
The murder trial heard a 999 call from Massey.
It said: “Ambulance. They shot me … hurry up.”
The operator asked for the zip code, but the line was cut.
Fellows was said to be a trusted infantryman in the so-called “Anti-A team”.
The gang feud, which spread to the Costa del Sol as recently as last year, is believed to have started when a woman threw a drink at an A-Team member in the summer of 2014.
The violence quickly escalated.
A shotgun was fired at a car, wounding a man, before another victim suffered horrific injuries in a machete attack.
In March 2015, a grenade was thrown at the home of a member of the A Team family and months later, Christian Hickey, then seven years old, and his mother Jayne were shot and wounded in their home.
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His father, Christian Hickey Snr, had been the intended target.
Fellows, nicknamed Iceman for being cold and calculated, was already in the frame of Massey’s murder when he shot Kinsella in May 2018.
The victim was walking through the woods in Rainhill, Merseyside, with her partner.
Fellows was found guilty in February 2019 of murdering Massey and Kinsella.
He is one of 70 people in the UK who has received a life sentence.
Chillingly, Fellows says in the letter that his sentence gives him the freedom to kill again if he feels threatened behind bars.
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And he reportedly tells of how he hopes to die of cancer so he doesn’t have to serve his entire jail sentence.
“I will be turning 40 soon, there are only another 60 left until I am released,” he says in the letters.
“Ha ha ha! Knowing me, I will live to be 100 years or more.
“I hope I’m only a couple of years old to do it. I hope I get cancer soon, so I don’t have to look at these walls for too long.”
Salford Lads: The Rise And Fall Of Paul Massey, written by Bernard O’Mahoney, available on Amazon in January.
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