Son of ‘Mr Big’ jailed for drug offence
MASSEY JNR WAS DRIVER DURING DEAL
THE son of murdered Salford ‘Mr Big’ Paul Massey has been jailed.
Stephen Pava Massey, 27, was caged for 12 months after admitting acting as a runner for a drugs deal. Family say he has struggled to come to terms with his father’s murder in 2015.
Prosecutor David Toal told Minshull Street Crown Court Massey agreed to give two unidentified men a lift to Rochdale on April 7 this year so they could purchase drugs.
After dropping them off, he waited for the pair to return.
When the two men came back, there was a violent confrontation in which one man was said to have been stabbed.
Massey was initially implicated.
He denied a charge of section 18 wounding and another of section 20 wounding.
He admitted two counts of assisting an offender and the prosecution decided not to pursue the assault charges.
Not guilty verdicts were formally recorded on the assault charges.
Judge Lever sentenced Massey, of no fixed abode but from Salford, to 12 months behind bars.
Massey is expected to serve half of that sentence before becoming eligible for parole. Because of time already served on remand, he is expected to be released on license imminently. Massey, who has worked as a postman, has no previous criminal convictions. His father Paul, 55, was gunned down after stepping out of his BMW moments after parking up at his home in Manchester Road in Clifton at 7.30pm on Sunday, July 26, 2015. The father-of-five was shot five times and died from a gunshot wound to his chest. Massey snr, a well-known figure in Salford’s underworld who previously stood to be Salford’s elected mayor in 2012, was shot by a lone gunman wearing a mask and militarystyle camouflage clothing armed with a machine gun. Hundreds of mourners lined the streets to St Paul’s Church in Pendlebury for his funeral service. His murder is linked to a feud between a Salford gang known as The A Team, whose members had allegiances to Massey, and a rival outfit. The killer has never been brought to justice. Paul Massey was jailed for 14 years in 1999 after he stabbed a man in the groin, leaving his victim for dead. Family of Stephen Maseey, who has been jailed for 12 months