How can someone do that to another person? Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Significantly the police were unable to recover any weapons from the scene. Express. On May 22nd a 37-year-old man was woken in the middle of the night at his home near Leigh by four masked men. The information was then used by Lydiate, who ran a series of criminal enterprises in the Salford area, to employ a hand-picked gang armed with sub-machine guns to torture "suspects" for information. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. They think: Im holding on to my life here. Receive newsletters with the latest news, sport and what's on updates from the Liverpool ECHO by signing up here, Career criminal Steven Boyle now faces decades behind bars. In terms of disrupting their activities, that was a lot easier because they came from not longstanding entrenched crime families so parents were with us. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. But by Friday police appeared no closer to catching those responsible. Something went wrong, please try again later. He was issued with numerous 'threat to life warnings' by police, ran security companies controlling nightclubs and was being investigated for money laundering. Fellows, 38, who also shot dead Massey's close friend, John Kinsella, three years later, using accomplice Steven Boyle as a spotter, was given a whole life sentence. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Children enjoying a Sunday afternoon kickabout scattered as shots rang out. Boyle was attacked by another prisoner at HMP Wakefield on January 20 last year. Lee Erdman, 37, once stood trial for conspiracy to murder. Man United beat West Ham United in the FA Cup fifth round and here are how the players rated at Old Trafford. Lee Erdman, 37, once stood trial for conspiracy to murder and firearms offences alongside Stephen Lydiate, 44. Steven Boyle was told that he would serve a minimum of 33 years in prison before he could be considered for parole after he was found guilty of murder in 2019. Three years later, his close friend John Kinsella, 53, was executed while walking his dogs with his pregnant partner Wendy Owen in Rainhill. Stephen Lydiate, 33, organised a campaign of kidnappings and torture to track down the gang who sprayed him with 14 bullets as he ate in a pub in Salford, Greater Manchester, in April last. Two would-be hitmen from a Moss Side-based gang, said to be of Asian or mixed-race appearance, went looking for revenge on a hoodlum they blamed for a city centre stabbing of one of their own. Lydiate, who was later released from prison on licence, was attacked by members of the A Team gang on the day of Massey's funeral, who beat him with wooden staves. While police have struggled to get people to talk on Salfords Ordsall estate, where Massey used to operate, one source said everyone on the estate knows who the two shooters are. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. From what I have heard one of the lads who got shot was giving people tenners minutes before it kicked off saying, Remember my name., Another said: A man inside the pub was shot in the stomach and the face. At his graveside in Agecroft cemetery, Masseys brother-in-law Stephen Lydiate had chemicals thrown in his eyes and was repeatedly battered around the head with the wooden supports used to lower Masseys coffin into his grave. Prosecutors say Mark Fellows and Steven Boyle carried out both murders, with Fellows acting as the shooter and Boyle as his "spotter". Massey's brother-in-law, Stephen Lydiate, has served a life sentence for a revenge plot of 'biblical proportions' after a shooting attempt on his life at the Ship Inn, Pendleton, in 1999. The incident was yet another in the string of tit-for-tat violence that has frightened many Salford families into silence. 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Doyle, of Greater Manchester police, said: Salfords very different to other places. He was characterised in the media as Mr Big. Two men are on trial accused of murder over "assassinations" of John Kinsella and Paul Massey, Mark Fellows, 38 and of Sandy Lane West in Warrington, is accused of the murders of John Kinsella and Paul Massey and the attempted murder of Wendy Owen. Mr Lydiate has never been charged with any offence connected to the murder. Four other members of the gang were sentenced to a total of 41 years for their part in the kidnappings -including Michael Boyle, then of Winton Road, Salford, who was jailed for 15 years. A source told the ECHO that Boyle was attacked by another prisoner and then retaliated. Sign up to the Daily Star's newsletter. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. A man who was viciously assaulted at the graveside during the funeral of Salford Mr Big Paul Massey has been recalled to prison. By the time Boyle was arrested in relation to the murders of Massey and Kinsella he was already well known to the police. Paul Greaney, QC, today closed the prosecution case by outlining the convictions of the four key figures in the trial at Liverpool Crown Court. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Boyle was moved to HMP Belmarsh after the incident at Wakefield. Then it all kicked off in the pub and someone in the pub shot back at the gunmen. This part of Salford was once the fiefdom of Paul Massey, 46, also known as Salfords Mr Big, whose security company once held a stranglehold on the doors of Manchesters biggest and best-known clubs. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Michael Boyle, then of Winton Road in Salford, was convicted of conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to kidnap, false imprisonment, wounding and two firearms offences. A crime godfather was jailed for 22 years yesterday for plotting a series of sadistic revenge attacks against gangsters who tried to kill him in an underworld feud. Mr Boyle admitted to the jury that he was a career criminal with convictions for robbery, escape from custody and possessing a loaded handgun fitted with a silencer and 82 rounds of ammunition. He was stabbed three times in the legs and taken to Hickey Farm at Astley Moss, Tyldesley. For residents on the estate, the turmoil since July has taken them back to the dark days when shootings seemed an everyday occurrence. Boyle's older brother Michael had been jailed for 15 years for his role in a violent gang war in the late 1990s. Stephen M. Kubaska III M.D., FACS is a Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon who primarily practices at Anaheim Regional Medical Center in Anaheim, CA with a second practice location at St. Jude Hospital in Fullerton. Six men launched a kidnap and murder plot of "biblical proportions" as revenge for a shooting, a jury heard yesterday. In 2012, Fellows admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply after police seized 200g of the drug, digital scales, mobile phones and 2,000 in cash from his home. During the same search, officers found a sock under floorboards in an airing cupboard containing 17 live rounds of 9mm parabellum ammunition. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. The violence, during April and May 1999 last was described in Preston Crown Court as being of biblical proportions. Boyles fingerprints were on the bag and his DNA was on the working firearm. Mr Greaney said police had intelligence he was involved in Massey's murder, but he had never been charged with any offence over it. He was taken to hospital but his injuries were not life-threatening. Its your children potentially that are going to get shot its you potentially that is going to get shot, your young children are now clearly in the picture.. Something went wrong, please try again later. It began when Mr Lydiate was sprayed with bullets at The Ship pub, in Pendleton, Salford, in April that year, but survived. Mr Lydiate has never been charged with any offence connected to the murder. 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. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Since Mondays shooting, police have warned a number of Salford gangland figures that their lives are in danger. What's he waiting for? The lad who was shot was in a bad way.. Mr Fellows and Mr Boyle are alleged to have murdered Mr Kinsella three years after the murder of Mr Massey. He was taken to hospital but his injuries were not. Police in high-visibility uniforms swarmed around the rundown network of highrise flats and Victorian terraces yesterday in an operation designed not only to trace the killers but also to offer reassurance to those who call this area home. In 2003, they and others robbed a cash-in-transit driver on his way to a bank, who was threatened with an axe and assaulted, taking 25,450. Only days ago, McKie sat in the living room of a Salford mother who had a grenade thrown through her front door. This part of Salford was once the fiefdom of Paul Massey, 46, also known as Salford's "Mr Big", whose security company once held a stranglehold on the doors of Manchester's biggest and best-known clubs. They tell them something and then see it on the news or somewhere. 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At 2.15pm on Sunday women and children were mixing with regulars in the Brass Handles, an ugly, low-rise bar near Salford Shopping Centre. After he was released he decided to kill Kinsella who blamed him for Massey's murder. They can see that happening to them, she said. "That means that you will not be eligible for parole until the expiry of 33 years from today less the 224 days you have spent on remand. 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Sources on the Ordsall estate said the streets of Salford had been flooded with heroin and crack cocaine since Masseys murder. On that occasion Lydiate, then 32, survived to wreak his own kind of vengeance on his rivals, described by the judge as a case set apart by its savagery and brutality for which he was jailed for life. Police have offered onlookers in the bar witness protection in a bid to persuade them to come forward and give evidence. On Saturday night he was drinking in the Wellington bar in Salford, when a gunman sneaked in and was seen approaching him. The reluctance of Salford residents to talk to the police after a seven-year-old boy and his mother were shot has made the task of ending a recent surge of violence even more difficult than. We had the mothers against violence and they were instrumental in helping us resolve those issues in that community, we havent got that here. Boyle, 35, of Sandiway, Heywood, Rochdale, and Fellows, 37, of Sandy Lane West, Hulme, Warrington, deny two counts of murder and one of attempted murder. The other was hit in the face as he turned to see what had happened to his accomplice. Their injuries are not thought to be life threatening. Mr Greaney said "well-known" Massey was jailed for 14 years for wounding with intent in 1999, later reduced to 10 years on appeal, and "had many enemies". He was jailed for 22 years. Mr Massey was murdered on July 26th 2015 by hired hitman Mark Fellows with an Uzi machine gun outside his home in Clifton. At Manchester Crown Court, Judge Peter Openshaw QC, said of the mayhem: "In a city where shootings have become common, this is a case set apart by its savagery and brutality.". In the twenty years that have passed, the property has passed to new management and is no longer run by Salford council. I am particularly keen to speak to anyone who may have seen a dark-coloured car in the area surrounding the pub on Sunday afternoon, he said. Man United beat West Ham United in the FA Cup fifth round and here are how the players rated at Old Trafford. In February 2016, Britton and two other men were arrested in a Spanish apartment, where a loaded firearm and ammunition was recovered. Do We Riot or Not? Lydiate, then of Vestrie Drive in Salford, was found guilty of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to kidnap. 19 Port Soderick Avenue; Salford; M5 4HW; England; Industry Codes. He said: "Massey was a public figure with a high profile. Mr Lydiate was the leader of a gang that kidnapped then shot, stabbed and tortured three men in an attempt to track down those behind a gun attack on him. Stephen Lydiate, who was assaulted at the graveside of Paul Massey. Lihat lainnya. Two white men, both aged 27, were injured. 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