Paul Massey’s ‘Iceman’ assassin stabbed in prison while serving life for executing ‘Mr Big’ in gangland hit
AN assassin who emptied an Uzi into one of Britain’s most feared gangland leaders has been stabbed in prison.
Mark Fellows, 42, aka The Iceman, was knifed in the head and neck at maximum security HMP Wakefield on Saturday.
The double murderer – who survived the slashing outside his cell – was treated by prison medics, the MEN reported.
Fellows was the “gun for hire” called on to slaughter Paul Massey, 55, in 2015 with a sub-machine gun.
Worshipped by younger gangs for his brutality, ‘Mr Big’ had been involved in Manchester’s underworld since he was 12.
He was a leading figure in the Salford Firm who used criminal clout to become a mediator in a gang war that raged in the city throughout the 90s.
But on July 26, 2015, Massey was getting out his car on his Salford driveway when gang rival Fellows – donning military fatigues – pounced.
The hitman – on contract from ‘The A Team’ gang – unloaded 18 shots at Massey and left the 55-year-old bleeding to death from nine wounds.
Massey is thought to have been targeted after he made an unsuccessful attempt to act as a mediator during a fall out between rival Salford gangs in 2015.
Just two weeks after he shot dead Massey, Fellows was shot in the backside outside his gran’s house.
After Massey’s execution The A Team shot a seven-year-old Christian Hickey Jr and his mum in their own home, an act that shocked the nation.
Both were left seriously injured lying in a pool of blood in the hallway of their home, with one bullet passing through Mrs Hickey’s leg into her son’s as he stood behind her.
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Police later caught up with The A Team’s leaders, jailing them over for over 100 years.
In June 2018, Fellows was charged with the murders of both Massey and Massey’s close pal John Kinsella, a Liverpool gangster.
He was sentenced to life in prison after after cops intercepted data from his fitness watch.
Saturday’s attack is the second time Fellows has been shanked in prison.
The hitman was previously airlifted to hospital with serious injuries in February 2019 after a crazed inmate slashed him with a razor at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.
A Prison Service spokesperson told the M.E.N: “We have a zero tolerance approach to violence and will always take strong action against those who break these rules.”