Only days ago, McKie sat in the living room of a Salford mother who had a grenade thrown through her front door. He also had the barrel of a gun shoved into his mouth. Man United beat West Ham United in the FA Cup fifth round and here are how the players rated at Old Trafford. Mr Lydiate has never been charged with any offence connected to the murder. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Boyle 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. An unidentified passenger fled and ditched a wig and glasses, before escaping. One day in late May 1999 - in the aftermath of a spree of violence which would later be described by a barrister as a revenge plot 'of Biblical proportions' - the home received some unlikely new 'residents'. He was issued with numerous 'threat to life warnings' by police, ran security companies controlling nightclubs and was being investigated for money laundering. Boyles fingerprints were on the bag and his DNA was on the working firearm. Manchester earned its unwanted Gunchester soubriquet more than a decade ago when several, predominantly black, gangs vied for supremacy. Muscleman Erdman became known to police in 2000 after he was arrested and charged over a string of gangland kidnappings. Mr Lydiate, described as "violent man", was also battered and attacked with acid at the funeral of Mr Massey, the court heard. He denies all allegations, Steven Boyle, 35 and of Sandy Way in Heywood, Manchester, is accused of the murders of John Kinsella and Paul Massey and the attempted murder of Wendy Owen. Boyle was acquitted of the Massey murder. The shooting was linked to a protection racket turf war in Salford following the jailing of another local crime boss. He was jailed for 14 years in April 1999, for stabbing a man outside a nightclub. Mr Greaney said: "It was insulting about Cazza - Carroll - calling him a faggot and coward and so on.". 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. Supreme Court to sit in Manchester for the first time next week, The court is usually based in central London. VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. He managed to fight the gang off. Lydiate then assembled a gang which organised a wave of punishment shootings and kidnappings when they tried to find out who had organised the pub attack. It was then council-owned sheltered housing for the elderly in a quiet street off Station Road, Pendlebury. Which is why were appealing to the women of Salford saying, actually, you lot have got to stand up and help us here. One of those involved in the attack on Mr Lydiate - and a pall bearer at the funeral - was notorious mob fixer John. Lee Erdman, 37, once stood trial for conspiracy to murder and firearms offences alongside Stephen Lydiate, 44. Whether you will be released at that point will be a matter for the Parole Board and their assessment for you at that point.". Four men have been arrested in connection with the incident and remain in custody for questioning. In 2011 he and a second man stole 1,000 of cigarettes from an unattended petrol station in Cornwall, using a car with false plates. Mr Greaney said: "The police had information that John Kinsella had been killed as the result of his criminal activity and the police received intelligence that he had a number of enemies that wanted him dead.". Significantly the police were unable to recover any weapons from the scene. Express. The reluctance of Salford residents to talk to the police after a seven-year-old boy and his mother were shot has made the task of ending a recent surge of violence even more difficult than. Patsy McKie, one of the bereaved parents who helped found Mothers Against Violence after her youngest son, Dorrie, was shot dead by three youths on a bike 16 years ago, is not surprised that police are encountering reticence. But it became part of one of the most bizarre episodes in the criminal history of Salford. There are other newsletters available too if you want them as well. Sources on the Ordsall estate said the streets of Salford had been flooded with heroin and crack cocaine since Masseys murder. A significant amount of drugs was seized. They can see that happening to them, she said. According to one eye witness account, retaliation was almost instant with gunfire exchanged across the floor of the pub. 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. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. Mr Greaney said Massey was seen as a "mentor" to Britton, who along with other A Team associates attended his funeral, when Kinsella was a pallbearer. Lydiate, then of Vestrie Drive in Salford, was found guilty of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to kidnap. He was convicted of possessing a handgun and ammunition without a certificate at trial. 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Six men launched a kidnap and murder plot of "biblical proportions" as revenge for a shooting, a jury heard yesterday. But the gangland hit was not a success. READ MORE:Spotter who helped gangland assassin 'The Iceman' has bid for freedom rejected. Several police appeals for information have been met by a wall of silence from Salford residents fearing reprisals if they talk. People are scared. Lihat lainnya. Two would-be hitmen from a Moss Side-based gang, said to be of Asian or mixed-race appearance, went looking for revenge on a hoodlum they blamed for a city centre stabbing of one of their own. A gang member from Salford who helped murder John Kinsella now faces spending three decades in the prison system after his appeal was rejected. He had been the subject of numerous newspaper articles dealing with his criminal activity. He admitted possessing ammunition without a certificate, but the bullets found were not the same as those used to kill Massey. DeSantis won't say he's running. 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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. After the gun smoke cleared it appeared that the predominantly black gangs from south Manchester had once again tried to move in on the white boys from Salford. Mr Greaney said Kinsella assaulted a police officer in 1987 and was jailed for nine years for attempted robbery with a firearm in 1991. 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. To get a behind the scenes look at how they work and the moments that don't make our stories, subscribe to our free weekly Echo Court Files newsletter, written by court reporter Neil Docking. The meeting was watched by officers from the National Crime Squad, but he returned without the money or the hostage. 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. But they walked away after his girlfriend screamed from a window. Moss Side, the scene of much of the violence, was labelled the British Bronx. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. One of those involved in the attack on Mr Lydiate - and a pall bearer at the funeral - was notorious mob fixer John Kinsella, 53, from Liverpool, the jury was told. At 2.15pm on Sunday women and children were mixing with regulars in the Brass Handles, an ugly, low-rise bar near Salford Shopping Centre. Fellows, 38, who also shot dead Massey's close friend, John Kinsella, three years later, using accomplice Steven Boyle as a spotter, was given a whole life sentence. Drinkers . In 2000 he was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, and conspiracy to kidnap, but has now been recalled to prison. The then-warden at the complex and her friend were intimidated and forced to harbour the gang. They are also seeking a second man in connection with the assault. Mr Lydiate has never been charged with any offence connected to the murder. Click here to find personal data about Stephen Lydiate including phone numbers, addresses, directorships, electoral roll information, related property prices and other useful information. 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.". Four other members of the gang were sentenced to a total of 41 years for their part in the kidnappings -including Michael Boyle, then of Winton Road, Salford, who was jailed for 15 years. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Boyle, 35, of Sandiway, Heywood, Rochdale, and Fellows, 37, of Sandy Lane West, Hulme, Warrington, deny two counts of murder and one of attempted murder. 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. As in the first murder, Mr Boyle is again alleged to have been the lookout while Mr Fellows is accused of using a Webley handgun to shoot Mr Kinsella in the back as he walked his dogs with partner Wendy Owen near their home in Rainhill, Merseyside. After opening fire on two men inside the Brass Handles public house on the corner of Edgehill Close and Fitzwarren Street they were chased by other customers and shot dead before they could reach their getaway car. 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 year. Paul Massey, 55, was shot dead outside his Salford home, allegedly by Mark Fellows, 38, with the help of co-accused Steven Boyle, 35. Christian Hickey in his hospital bed after gunmen shot him and his mother at their home. The two hitmen ran from the pub across Fitzwarren Road and on to parkland known locally as The Croft with the mob at their heels. Fellows received a whole life sentence for the murders of Mr Kinsella and Massey. Kinsella was jailed for 10 years for robbery in 2008, after he had fled the UK and was extradited from the Netherlands. Stephen Lydiate, who was assaulted at the graveside of Paul Massey. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. In November 2015, police searched his home and found 22.5g of cocaine at 64% purity, which he admitted dealing, plus cash, digital scales and multiple phones. 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. The man the gang had tried to kidnap in Monton was eventually abducted by five masked men, on May 24th just after midnight, who shot him in the leg at his home. On May 19th, just after 9am, two men tried to get into the home of a man in Monton, Eccles. 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. They were armed with an arsenal of guns - but forced to flee after a gun was accidentally fired at the property. 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