Twelve days later he discharged himself from hospital, where he had had a police guard around the clock, and vowed to take revenge on the two men he suspected of having ordered the hit on him. The defendants have begun their cases at Manchester Crown Court An alleged gang leader rang police to tell them Salford's A Team crime group was behind the doorstep shooting of a mother and her. Mr Kinsella had a long criminal record and was known to have been an 'enforcer' within Merseyside's underworld. Supreme Court to sit in Manchester for the first time next week, The court is usually based in central London. Mr Greaney said: "Some of the graffiti that appeared in the Salford area made specific reference to Carroll being in Spain and that he should come back to fight the war. One of those involved in the attack on Mr Lydiate - and a pall bearer at the funeral - was notorious mob fixer John. 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Preston Crown Court heard how Lydiate used a British Telecom worker on his payroll to provide him with names, addresses and ex-directory phone numbers to track down his attackers. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'. The force would not say how Mr Lydiate had breached his conditions. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Its your children potentially that are going to get shot its you potentially that is going to get shot, your young children are now clearly in the picture.. Whether you will be released at that point will be a matter for the Parole Board and their assessment for you at that point.". He said: "You played your part in the execution of a man knowing full well what was to happen. The pair had an argument and the killer shot Erdman at close range. We wanted to show our communities that we are leaving no stone unturned in the hunt for those responsible for the abhorrent attack on an innocent child and his mother, and that we will not stand for the spate of shootings taking place on our streets in recent weeks.. Stephen Lydiate, 49, was battered with a heavy wooden beam and had a chemical poured in his face, during the attack in Agecroft cemetery, Sign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city. This gang war culminated in a fatal machine gun attack on underworld figure Paul Massey, who had been associated with the A Team gang. On that occasion Lydiate, then 32, survived to wreak his own kind of vengeance on his rivals, described by the judge as a case set apart by its savagery and brutality for which he was jailed for life. Lydiate was driven to revenge after a masked assassin walked into the Ship Pub in Salford last year and opened fire, hitting him in the chest, abdomen, arm, elbow and thigh. Four accomplices were jailed for a total of 41 years after being found guilty of charges including plotting murder, blackmail, plotting false imprison- ment and conspiracy to kidnap. Officers are linking the tit-for-tat shooting to a feud sparked by a recent incident in Manchester city centre when one gang member believed himself to have lost face in an apparently inconsequential confrontation. Mr Massey, 55, was shot dead by a man wearing . Laurence Lowry Court was the scene of a terrifying incident twenty years ago, Stephen Lydiate is the brother-in-law of the late businessman Paul Massey, who was gunned down on his doorstep in 2015. By the time Boyle was arrested in relation to the murders of Massey and Kinsella he was already well known to the police. 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They tell them something and then see it on the news or somewhere. Lihat lainnya. A relative carried 10,500 to a rendezvous with a gang member. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. A 10,000 ransom was demanded from Mr Kent's family for his release before heescaped by slipping sleeping tablets into his guard's drink. He said Lydiate - the brother of Massey's partner Louise - had been interviewed by police about Massey's murder, but refused to co-operate. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. 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They included Michael Boyle - the elder brother of Steven Boyle, who, 20 years later, would be jailed for his part in the assassination of John Kinsella, a close associate of Paul Massey. The attack on February 20 2019 was carried out by Kieran Blair, who was a member of a gun gang that brought mayhem to parts of Speke and Huyton. While the gang were there, they attempted to disguise themselves by wearing women's clothes and wigs. He said Lydiate - the brother of Massey's partner Louise - had been interviewed by police about Massey's murder, but refused to co-operate. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Mr Boyle admitted to the jury that he was a career criminal with convictions for robbery, escape from custody and possessing a loaded handgun fitted with a silencer and 82 rounds of ammunition. How can someone do that to another person? He said until July 2014, A Team members were on friendly terms with Carroll and a man called Jamie Rothwell, both known associates of Fellows. Days after the high profile murder Fellows was shot by gangsters loyal to Massey in a suspected reprisal attack. Sorry, we are unable to accept comments about this article at the moment. Jailing Mr Lydiate for life and four others to sentences ranging from 15 to eight years, Judge Peter Openshaw QC said: In a city where shootings have become common, this is a case set apart by its savagery and brutality.. Steven Boyle was also jailed for life. He was characterised in the media as Mr Big. Manchester gangs have been more involved in providing protection, and have been more organised. Man United beat West Ham United in the FA Cup fifth round and here are how the players rated at Old Trafford. Mourners line the streets for the funeral procession of Paul Massey in Salford. Two white men, both aged 27, were injured. An increasingly violent series of incidents thought to be linked to the murder has plagued Salford since then. Police have intelligence that Stephen Lydiate was involved in the murder of Paul Massey Paul Greaney gun moments his BMW address Road in July 35, both Salford, murdering friend, John Kinsella, for Massey but said. But it became part of one of the most bizarre episodes in the criminal history of Salford. Throughout the internecine strife, the rivalry between the white crime firms of Salford, interested in protection, and the street gangs of Manchester, who run drugs, has been an occasional theme. Mondays shooting was the 21st known gun crime in Salford in the past 18 months including nine since Masseys death, of which two have been formally linked to the father of fives murder. Three years later, his close friend John Kinsella, 53, was executed while walking his dogs with his pregnant partner Wendy Owen in Rainhill. Fellows received a whole life sentence for the murders of Mr Kinsella and Massey. Mr Stephen Lydiate ; Registered Address. He was issued with numerous 'threat to life warnings' by police, ran security companies controlling nightclubs and was being investigated for money laundering. His brother-in-law Stephen Lydiate, has served a life sentence for a revenge plot of 'biblical proportions' after a shooting attempt on his life in 1999, Lee Erdmann, younger brother of the late Salford face Tony Erdmann, was shot dead in 2012, and Massey's close friend Bobby Spiers is serving life for a failed plot to kill Salford hardman, David One report suggests that the guns and balaclavas were hurriedly retrieved by an accomplice before the Mondeo sped off. Since Mondays shooting, police have warned a number of Salford gangland figures that their lives are in danger. The hostage was then moved to a house in Lower Kersal but escaped on May 25th by slipping some sleeping tablets into the drink of his armed guard. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Boyle was acquitted of the Massey murder. At Manchester Crown Court, Judge Peter Openshaw QC, said of the mayhem: "In a city where shootings have become common, this is a case set apart by its savagery and brutality.". One police source acknowledged that the explosion of violence took the police force by surprise but added: One name keeps cropping up: Paul Massey. . Boyle had robbed a petrol station with four other men in 1999 and, in 2011, was driving a hire vehicle on false plates, stopped by police in Whiston. Mr Lydiate has never been charged with any offence connected to the murder. But they walked away after his girlfriend screamed from a window. Unlike in Moss Side, where a group of enraged parents took a stand against gun crime after three young men were shot dead within two weeks in 1999, the relatives of gang members in Salford today are silent. Web. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. He said police had information that he had criminal connections in Holland; was still criminally active; had significant debts in connection with crime; was involved in an acid attack on Stephen Lydiate at Massey's funeral; and had a separate mobile phone dedicated for criminal use. He was later found in the back of a Transit van outside the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital with gunshot wounds to his leg and knee. "Stephen Lydiate arranged the kidnap and torture of several individuals in a plan to murder the person he believed had shot him.". This part of Salford was once the fiefdom of Paul Massey, 46, also known as Salford's "Mr Big", whose security company once held a stranglehold on the doors of Manchester's biggest and best-known clubs. He may be in jail but he has still got some cronies on the outside.. Stephen Lydiate, 33, organised a campaign of kidnappings and torture to track down the gang who sprayed him with 14 bullets as he ate in a pub in Salford, Greater Manchester, in April last. Boyles fingerprints were on the bag and his DNA was on the working firearm. They were armed with an arsenal of guns - but forced to flee after a gun was accidentally fired at the property. Two men are on trial accused of murder over "assassinations" of John Kinsella and Paul Massey, Mark Fellows, 38 and of Sandy Lane West in Warrington, is accused of the murders of John Kinsella and Paul Massey and the attempted murder of Wendy Owen. Sources on the Ordsall estate said the streets of Salford had been flooded with heroin and crack cocaine since Masseys murder. The community dont trust the police. Lee Erdman, 37, once stood trial for conspiracy to murder. It was then council-owned sheltered housing for the elderly in a quiet street off Station Road, Pendlebury. Other reports suggest that there has been bad blood since the stabbing of a member of a crime family based in Moss Side, once the epicentre of the Gunchester phenomenon. Another of the four kidnap victims, 35-year old Tony Shenton, was found in a stolen van near a hospital with gunshot wounds to his leg after being held captive for 13 hours. 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