Mark Fellows | |
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| Born | 5 September 1980 |
Mark Fellows (nicknamed "The Iceman"; born 5 September 1980) is an English hitman convicted of the murders of John Kinsella and Paul Massey, [1] rival enforcers to the Anti A Team criminal network. At the time of his conviction he was one of only 70 prisoners sentenced to a whole life term. [1]
Fellows lived in Warrington but was originally from Salford. [2]
On 26 July 2015, Massey was shot dead outside his home on Manchester Road, Clifton, by a lone gunman. The killer was reported to have been wearing military style fatigues and carried a weapon "similar to a sub machine gun". [3] Greater Manchester Police offered a £50,000 reward for information pertaining to the killing. [4]
Kinsella was shot dead on 5 May 2018 near St Helens Linkway in Rainhill as he walked with his pregnant partner Wendy Owen. [5] [6] The killers used encrypted EncroChat handsets to co-ordinate the murder. [7] [8] [6] [9]
The trial lasted eight weeks, with heavily armed police officers in attendance. [6] His fellow criminal Steven Boyle was also on trial. [6] Boyle was described as Fellows' "brother in arms" and accused of acting as a spotter, watching the victims and providing assistance to the gunman. [6]
During the trial, evidence from a Garmin fitness watch with a GPS function found in Fellows' house was used to show that he had travelled from his home to a field opposite Massey's home. [10]
Fellows was found guilty of the murders of both Massey and Kinsella, but found not guilty of the attempted murder of Owen. [6] Mr Justice William Davis sentenced him to a whole-life term. [6] Boyle was convicted of the murder of Kinsella, but cleared of the murder of Massey and the attempted murder of Owen. [6]
In February 2019 Fellows was seriously injured when he was slashed by another prisoner with a weapon believed to have been made from a razor blade. [2] He was attacked in HM Prison Whitemoor and airlifted to hospital. [2]
He appealed against his sentence on the grounds that it was "excessive", but in July 2019 the appeal was turned down. [11]
His trial was told the hits were co-ordinated using Encrochat on a device which cost £1,500 for a six-month contract and was sold on websites visited by those engaged in crime.