| Mark Fellows | |
| Birth Date: | 5 September 1980 |
Mark Fellows (nicknamed "The Iceman") (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.
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".[2] Greater Manchester Police offered a £50,000 reward for information pertaining to the killing.[3]
Kinsella was shot dead on 5 May 2018 near St Helens Linkway in Rainhill as he walked with his pregnant partner Wendy Owen.[4] The killers used encrypted EncroChat handsets to co-ordinate the murder.[5] [6] [7] [8]
The trial lasted eight weeks, with heavily armed police officers in attendance.[7] His fellow criminal Steven Boyle was also on trial.[7] Boyle was described as Fellows' "brother in arms" and accused of acting as a spotter, watching the victims and providing assistance to the gunman.[7]
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.[9]
Fellows was found guilty of the murders of both Massey and Kinsella, but found not guilty of the attempted murder of Owen.[7] Mr Justice William Davis sentenced him to a whole-life term.[7] Boyle was convicted of the murder of Kinsella, but cleared of the murder of Massey and the attempted murder of Owen.[7]
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.[10] He was attacked in HM Prison Whitemoor and airlifted to hospital.[10]
He appealed against his sentence on the grounds that it was "excessive", but in July 2019 the appeal was turned down.[11]