An assassin dubbed 'The Iceman' who carried out two gangland executions has allegedly been attacked in prison.
Mark Fellows, 42, was reportedly stabbed in the head and the neck on Saturday at the maximum security HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire. The double murderer showered a hail of bullets on gangland rivals but never explained his motivation.
As reported by the Manchester Evening News, he was treated by prison medics after being left with a scar after a similar attack in 2019. Extracts from his prison letters were previously shared where he said he was prepared to kill again in prison.
Fellows was the the 'gun for hire' called on to slaughter a leading figure in a rival gang, Paul Massey, 55, in 2015 with an Uzi sub-machine gun. He peppered Massey with shots while dressed in army fatigues then pursued his target up the driveway of his home on Manchester Road in Clifton, Salford, to finish him off.
Known as Salford's 'Mr Big', Massey was one the city's most notorious and feared figures but he died on his own doorstep. In a letter from prison, Fellows wrote: "The night before I was waiting for Massey and a police officer turned up when I was laying there. I thought that I was going to have to do him but he never saw me. Ha ha ha!”
He went on to boast about how he fired bullets at Massey’s feet so he “danced like a cowboy” before firing the fatal shots. Three years later Fellows murdered Massey's pal from Liverpool, John 'Scouse' Kinsella, 53.
The hitman cycled up to his target near the village of Rainhill in Merseyside as his target walked his dogs. The assassin shot him twice in the back and then approached his stricken victim to shoot him twice more in the back of the head, in order to ensure his chilling job was done.
Fellows was handed a rare whole-life term in January 2019 following 26-day trial where he was convicted of two counts of murder. 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."
He was handed a 'whole life' term, which means he cannot apply for parole and will probably die in prison. Just two weeks after he shot dead Massey, Fellows was shot in the backside outside his grandmother's house. Just a month after he was jailed, Fellows was attacked with a razor blade inside HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire. He ostentatiously stroked the scar he was left with when he appeared in court later in 2019 in an unsuccessful bid to challenge his whole life tariff.
It is understood the latest attack on Fellows happened at HMP Wakefield in Saturday as the country was celebrating the coronation of King Charles. The Manchester Evening Times has learned he was stabbed to the back of his head and neck in the prison grounds, while he wasn't in his cell.
A Prison Service spokesperson told the paper: "We have a zero tolerance approach to violence and will always take strong action against those who break these rules."
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