Police probe into razor attack on Massey killer
A POLICE investigation has been launched after a gangland hitman who murdered Paul Massey was seriously injured in an attack in prison.
Mark Fellows, 38, was airlifted to hospital last Wednesday after being slashed with what was believed to be a weapon made from a razor blade at Whitemoor Category A maximum security prison in Cambridgeshire.
He is now back in custody, officers said.
A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Constabulary confirmed: “Officers are investigating reports of a serious assault in HMP Whitemoor on Wednesday 20 February. A man in his 30s received serious, but not life threatening injuries and remains in custody at the prison.”
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said in a statement last week that ‘prison staff are investigating an incident between two prisoners on Wednesday’. After the attack, a source told the M.E.N.: “He was apparently badly cut all over his body and had to be airlifted out of the prison to hospital.”
Fellows, of Warrington but originally from Salford, denied murder but was convicted last month after a 26-day trial of gunning down fatherof-five Mr Massey, 55, outside his home in the Clifton area of Salford in 2015.
He was also found guilty of shoot- ing dead John Kinsella, a friend of Mr Massey’s from Liverpool, three years later.
Fellows – who was nicknamed ‘The Iceman’ in criminal circles – was handed a whole life sentence, which means there’s no minimum term set by the judge.
Fellows’ ‘spotter’ Steven Boyle, 36, was cleared of Mr Massey’s murder but found guilty after a trial of murdering 53-year-old Mr Kinsella – a charge he had denied.
Mr Kinsella, a pallbearer at Mr Massey’s funeral, was shot dead in Merseyside last May as he walked his dogs with his partner.
The alleged attacker of Fellows has now been moved to a segregation unit, it’s believed.
Whitemoor is for men in Category A and B – the most serious offenders – and is a designated maximum security prison. It is one of eight high security prisons across the country.
Whitemoor focuses on settlement, which helps those convicted of serious offences to try to make positive use of their long jail sentences.