The murders arose out of gang warfare in Salford, Greater Manchester, the court has heard. He was murdered in front of his pregnant partner Wendy Owen three years after he helped carry his close friend Massey's coffin at his funeral - which was marred by a graveside acid attack. Massey was revered and protected by members of The A-Team, but that connection became a complicating factor when there was a major fall out between leading figures within their ranks. However, the situation had got out of control - and there was nothing he could do. They were shown a picture of crude slogans goading Carroll, one which read "Cazza snitch hid in Spain come fight your war" and another "Cazza rat coward hiding in Spain you can't hide forever". Within hours, the gang appeared to have responded, when a man was shot three times as he went to collect a car from a car wash in Ashton-in-Makerfield. When police searched Fellows' Skoda Fabia in June 2018, they recovered a GPS jamming device from the vehicle - ideal if you wanted to stop rival gang members following your movements. Again, a GPS tracking device was discovered attached to a Volkswagen Scirocco found on the Salford street where the victim was wounded on March 21. A month later, a gunman wearing a boiler suit used a machine gun to fire into a house in the same street, where a mum and two children aged seven and 12-months-old slept. Khan wasn't to know there was a tracking device on his Mercedes - seemingly placed there by members of the Anti A-Team to track him and passengers. There the cocky patient agreed with an officer that he'd had a narrow escape and it was "very close", joking, unprompted: "It could have been like Paul [Massey].". The particulars of the charges which were read out in court by prosecutor Rebecca Macaulay-Addison allege that the pair conspired with Michael Carroll, Jamie Rothwell and Liam Gee between July 20, 2014, and October 31, 2015, to commit the alleged offences in Salford. He encouraged a number of groups to work for him, selling drugs and extorting innocent people to pat money to him. Fellows is regarded by GMP as a member of the opposing OCG.". I went to school with Steven Boyle. This attack is believed to have been committed by members of the A-Team.". Thugs threatened to chop a woman's head off with an industrial saw during the gang war behind the murders of Paul Massey and John Kinsella, the ECHO can reveal. There was suspicion of a gun fight between rival factions. Murder, 21 shootings and a boy’s maiming in Britain’s worst gang war were sparked by a row in an ordinary greasy spoon.. There was more evidence that pointed to his involvement. He was jailed for 14 years and six months. He was jailed for 80 months. § 515 for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. It was insulting about "Cazza", Carroll.". The young boy and his mother were left lying in a pool of their blood in the hallway after gang members used a Heckler & Koch P7 self-loading pistol. Fellows, 38, nicknamed ‘The Iceman’, murdered Salford mobster … Coward and Walton were each jailed for two years and Lincoln Warmington for two years and three months, beginning after they have finished earlier terms for separate knife attacks in Manchester nightclubs. The incident was attended by police patrols. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment in Manhattan federal court charging MICHAEL CARROLL and MICHAEL … When Carroll was 18 months old, his father was jailed in a military prison for 11 years for stabbing a couple after getting into a fight at a dance. State of Michigan Vital Records Office. People who know what happened are sickened by it. Carroll was exploited by his friends, family and media. After the burial, guests started to leave. "Residents and visitors to addresses there reported hearing voices, and to seeing at least two males in balaclavas wielding machetes chasing another male on foot. Manchester Magistrates' Court (Image: Daily Mirror). Michael Carroll, 57, was arrested Aug. 27 on suspicion he was operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Kinsella, Britton and Khan all paid their respects at Massey's funeral on August 28, when Kinsella was a pall bearer. A police document, leaked to the ECHO, reveals masked men warned a young mum she would be decapitated with a petrol-powered tool normally used for cutting through concrete. They have also lived in Holt, MI and Lansing, MI plus 2 other locations. Michigan-Ohio State is going global, writes Chris Fowler. 'Why?'". Detectives believed this was a hit squad intending to capture, torture and murder Carroll. Michael John Carroll, 18, was arrested at his Mason home on Wednesday afternoon. If the gang war ever "calmed down", it was only to an extent. Police suspect he wore a Garmin GPS watch when lying in his hospital bed, which, when seized in 2018, revealed a "reconnaissance mission" near Massey's home. Christian Hickey Sr – once jailed for manslaughter – was friends with Michael Carroll, who the court heard had been part of the A-Team but a deadly feud developed between him and the gang’s alleged boss Stephen Britton. The man getting married was a relative of Lydiate. After July 2015 murder of Massey, 55 – a ‘mentor’ to Britton – the A-Team took revenge. The report reads: "It was believed that Michael Carroll fled to Spain. She claimed he smirked back and mouthed: "Go and die. Detectives believe the dispute blew up into something far more sinister when a woman threw a drink over an A-Team boss at a Manchester nightclub. However, the suspects were released on bail, with Britton - previously jailed for five years and four months in 2009 for killing 18-year-old Adam Jama in a hit-and-run - thought to still be in Spain. He denied having possession of a gun that night and said he was about to visit a friend when they came under fire.". He was arrested in 2016 alongside Mr Britton with a loaded handgun in Spain, where the court heard Carroll had fled to escape the "war" on Salford's streets. Intelligence was received that an incident occurred where a woman threw a drink over a man and as a result a drink was thrown over her. He was also gunned down on his doorstep with an Uzi machine gun by breakaway gang members. "The hand grenade attack is regarded as another attack on the A-Team.". The next month, a man suspected to be the A-Team member who had the drink thrown over him nearly died, when his throat was slashed in a ferocious machete attack. Mandy Burgess's numbers came up the day after her nephew Kiaran Stapleton, was jailed for life for shooting dead Anuj Bidve in Salford, Greater Manchester. The A-Team then let off a smoke grenade during a wedding ceremony in Salford. He is now wanted on recall to prison after breaching the conditions of his license. He was taken to hospital, where it was found the bullet passed through his pelvis, missing a colostomy bag the health and fitness fanatic had worn since he was a child. Carne Thomasson, 29, Christopher Hall, 49, the gang’s armourer, and Aldaire Warmington, 32, a senior member of the A-Team and a major drug dealer who had a supervisory role in the attack, were each cleared of a count of conspiracy to murder. Liverpool Crown Court heard that Britton, 31, was the leader of a Salford street gang called 'The A-Team'. More than 300 people have been arrested and 26 guns seized (along with ‘large quantities’ of ammunition) from Salford’s streets since Project Gulf, … Any suggestion this was all an act and that Fellows accepted his hopeless position and agreed to let Boyle blame him - so his friend had a chance of walking free - has been rubbished by sources close to, proceedings. This was intended as a warning.". He’s part of his group, not a big player. The calm killer - who stood chatting with paramedics while applying pressure to a wound to his hip - said the gunshot sounded like a 9mm gun. Fellows meanwhile had received an informal warning from police, based on intelligence about a threat to his life, in March. During a search of his house, police found the convicted cocaine dealer had £10,000 in cash, thought to be part of a £50,000 payment for murdering Massey. At around 6.15pm on August 12, 2015, the hitman was cycling to his house in Normanton Avenue in Salford, when shots were fired from a passing black Honda Civic. A shotgun was fired through the window of a Mercedes C class car. Mr Justice William Davis remarked that he was not known to have any personal animosity for Massey, but was driven by money. That didn't sit well with "The Iceman", who, after 26 days of silence, finally decided to address the courtroom. Fellows was hit with a whole life sentence for the double murder, which means he will never be released and die in jail. Once the service was underway, two males ran to the church and threw a smoking object at the door. The gunman in both shootings has still not been identified. An associate of Stephen Britton was arrested at hospital on suspicion of firearms offences, and later on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. It is believed Carroll fled to the Middle East, before heading to Thailand, with police now of the opinion he remains overseas. However, Mr Greaney said the gangs "knew no limits" and it only calmed down when Britton "and some of his cronies" were arrested with a handgun in Spain. Now we can bring you the exclusive story of why it is thought Fellows came to target the pair and where their brutal murders sit on a timeline of terror that includes grenade attacks, women and children being shot, and a suspected hit squad pursuing a rival to Spain. The High Court judge said: "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. Inside the explosive gang war which led to double murder, Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletter. The attack is believed to have been committed by members of the A-Team. 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