Murder trial told of bid to save Massey pal’s life
PARAMEDICS UNABLE TO SAVE HIM AFTER MASKED MAN ON BIKE FIRED REVOLVER, COURT TOLD
A JURY was told about desperate attempts to save a friend of Salford ‘Mr Big’ Paul Massey after he was shot by a masked gunman on a bike.
John Kinsella, 53, was shot twice in the back and then two more times in the back of the head, a court heard.
Each shot was likely to have been fatal on its own.
Mr Kinsella was said to have been killed by a Salford hit-squad near his home in Rainhill, Merseyside, on May 5 this year as part of a ‘war’ between rival gangs which had claimed the life of Mr Massey three years before.
Father-of-five Mr Massey, 55, was shot dead with a sub-machine gun outside his home on Manchester Road in Clifton on July 25, 2015.
Mr Kinsella was a pall-bearer at his funeral and both men were said to have a ‘serious criminal history,’ the jurors have been told.
The alleged gunman, Mark Fellows, 38, from Warrington, and his alleged ‘spotter’ Steven Boyle, 35, from Heywood, deny two charges of murder and one charge of attempting to murder Mr Kinsella’s partner Wendy Owen.
On the third day of the trial at Liverpool Crown Court, the jurors heard about the efforts to save Mr Kinsella after he had been shot four times by a Webley revolver by a masked man on a mountain bike.
Paramedic Andrew Carter was one of the first emergency services on the scene and he was called junction to 7 of the M62, close to where Mr Kinsella was shot, in a rapid response vehicle.
He arrived at 7.09am and climbed a fence to see that a casualty was lying face down on a path, the court heard.
In his statement which was read out to the court, Mr Carter said Mr Kinsella was ‘blue and not breathing’ and there was no pulse.
The court also heard evidence from advanced paramedic Paul Brennan, whose statement was also read to the jurors. After parking on the motorway sliproad hard shoulder, the witness said he could see the casualty lying on his back on the grass verge of a footpath. Efforts were made to resuscitate Mr Kinsella and drugs like adrenaline were administered, the court heard.
Medics at the scene agreed Mr Kinsella had died, the court was told, and a blanket was used to cover the body to preserve his dignity.
Home Office pathologist Dr Jonathan Medcalf went to the scene of the shooting and saw a large area of blood staining which appeared to be coming from the back of Mr Kinsella’s head.
Later the body was taken to Royal Liverpool Hospital mortuary where a full-body CT scan revealed what appeared to be three bullets, one in the abdomen and two in the head.
Dr Medcalf concluded that any one of the four gunshot wounds could have proved fatal on their own.
Proceeding