A hitman who murdered a gang leader known as 'Mr Big' has been stabbed in prison. Mark Fellows, 42, known as The Iceman, received injuries to his head and neck and had to be treated by prison medics at the maximum security HMP Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, on Saturday, May 6, reports the MEN.
It is not the first time the double murderer has been attacked in prison. Just one month after he was jailed in 2019, he was attacked with a razor blade inside HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire and left with a scar.
Fellows was given a rare whole-life term for two counts of murder in January 2019 following a 26-day trial. He was found guilty of being the "gun for hire", instructed to kill 55-year-old Paul Massey, a leading member of the underworld in Manchester and more widely, in 2015. A judge told him he was simply "prepared to kill whoever you were asked to kill".
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Known as Salford's 'Mr Big', Massey was one of the city's most feared and notorious figures. Clad in army gear, Fellows used an Uzi sub-machine gun to shoot him before chasing him up the driveway of his home in Salford to kill him on his doorstep.
Just two weeks after the murder, Fellows himself was shot outside his grandmother's house in the backside. Three years later he was employed as an assassin once more to target of Massey's friends from Liverpool, John 'Scouse' Kinsella, 53. Fellows cycled up to Kinsella while he was walking his dogs near Rainhill in Merseyside, before shooting him twice in the back. He approached his victim calmly to shoot him twice more in the back of the head.
Jailing him, Mr Justice William Davis said: "So far as is known you had no personal animus in relation to Paul Massey. The only sensible conclusion is that you were a gun for hire prepared to kill whoever you were asked to kill by those who hired you."
His whole life order which means he cannot apply for parole and will probably die in prison. In 2019 he made an unsuccessful bid to appeal his whole life tariff. It is understood the latest attack, which saw Fellows stabbed to the back and his head and neck at HMP Wakefield, happened when he wasn't in his cell. His injuries were not serious and he was not taken to hospital. An investigation into the attack is underway. 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."
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