They were armed with an arsenal of guns - but forced to flee after a gun was accidentally fired at the property. He had survived previous attempts on his life including with a machine gun.". GMP said: A 49-year-old man from Salford has been recalled to prison for breaching his licence conditions.. He jumped from a window and hid in a skip where he was found by workmen. Police have offered onlookers in the bar witness protection in a bid to persuade them to come forward and give evidence. Massey's partner Louise Lydiate is the sister of Stephen Lydiate, who was interviewed as a "person of interest" after the murder in July 2015. Mr Kinsella had a long criminal record and was known to have been an 'enforcer' within Merseyside's underworld. Gang boss Stephen Lydiate organised a series of reprisal attacks after he was shot and nearly killed in a Salford pub while watching Manchester United play Leeds in 1999. 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. An unidentified passenger fled and ditched a wig and glasses, before escaping. One of those involved in the attack on Mr Lydiate - and a pall bearer at the funeral - was notorious mob fixer John. They were the members of a gang who had kidnapped, shot, stabbed, and tortured three men in a bid to track down those behind a gun attack on their leader. Massey's funeral on August 28 brought around 2,000 mourners on to the streets of Salford. They shot him once in both legs and also took him to Hickey Farm. Three years later, his close friend John Kinsella, 53, was executed while walking his dogs with his pregnant partner Wendy Owen in Rainhill. The lad who was shot was in a bad way.. One of Lydiate's victims, 37-year-old James Kent, was snatched from his bed and driven to a remote farm before being tortured during 80 hours of captivity. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Mr Greaney said Kinsella assaulted a police officer in 1987 and was jailed for nine years for attempted robbery with a firearm in 1991. Police forensic experts are examining a bullet casing removed from Christians leg in the hope it could help identify the gunmen. 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. 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. During the same search, officers found a sock under floorboards in an airing cupboard containing 17 live rounds of 9mm parabellum ammunition. 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. He said: "Massey was a public figure with a high profile. People are scared. There was blood everywhere and the place looked like an abattoir. He was convicted of possessing a handgun and ammunition without a certificate at trial. She spoke outside Swinton police station, three miles from where Christian Hickey and his mother, Jayne, 29, were shot in the legs on their doorstep on Monday. We had a similar but in other ways completely different picture in Moss Side years ago. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The violence, during April and May 1999 last was described in Preston Crown Court as being of biblical proportions. Mr Boyle and Mr Fellows were part of a rival gang led by a man called Michael Carroll, it is alleged. Manchester earned its unwanted Gunchester soubriquet more than a decade ago when several, predominantly black, gangs vied for supremacy. Police chief says officers investigating shooting of seven-year-old face a struggle to break through in a community with longstanding crime families. Express. 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. 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Boyle took and Fellows was carried in vehicles taken without consent and they later tried to escape from custody at court, but were detained. You have to put yourself in their situation.. Days after the high profile murder Fellows was shot by gangsters loyal to Massey in a suspected reprisal attack. Mr Lydiate has never been charged with any offence connected to the murder. Read about our approach to external linking. In 2003, they and others robbed a cash-in-transit driver on his way to a bank, who was threatened with an axe and assaulted, taking 25,450. Join Facebook to connect with Louise Lydiate and others you may know. When you've made your choice, press the Save Changes button at the bottom. Boyle is thought to have been punched in the face although no weapons were involved. The court heard Carroll was the godfather to Rothwell's daughter and Rothwell was shot outside a car wash in Ashton-in-Makerfield in March 2015. A fourth man was shot in the leg in front of his girlfriend and children after his car was chased through Duchy Road, Salford. This is my tribute to my Grandad, Stephen Lydiate D.S.M. He died later in hospital. 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'. Do We Riot or Not? In respect of the murder of John Kinsella the sentence on you is life imprisonment with a minimum term of 33 years. The incident was yet another in the string of tit-for-tat violence that has frightened many Salford families into silence. Once you're there, put your email address where it says at the top, then click on the Echo Court Files button. Lee Erdman, 37, once stood trial for conspiracy to murder. 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 during the Gunchester era of the 1990s, the citys police chief has said. On May 19th, just after 9am, two men tried to get into the home of a man in Monton, Eccles. 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. He was jailed for 22 years. They think: Im holding on to my life here. Mr Massey was murdered on July 26th 2015 by hired hitman Mark Fellows with an Uzi machine gun outside his home in Clifton. He had always asserted his opposition to class A drugs, sparking a bloody feud between two gangs fighting to get their hands on the huge profits those substances bring in. 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Serial Killer Who Murdered Four Women While Wearing GPS Device Speaks Out: What I Did 'Was Beyond Evil' Steven Gordon, who sexually assaulted and killed four women while wearing a GPS device, says . Down the years casual violence has become a way of life on Langworthy as criminal gangs seek to wrest control from each other, but nothing had prepared its residents for the terrifying violence that broke out over several mad minutes on Sunday afternoon. 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. One witness said: A car with five men in it pulled up outside the pub, which was full of parents and kids watching the match, and two men with balaclavas charged in. One Salford gangster, Stephen Lydiate, was peppered with bullets in April 1999 by a black gunman who entered the crowded Ship pub in Pendleton, Salford, and opened fire. 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. He was tortured and forced to call a relative and ask for 50,000 for his safe release. He had been the subject of numerous newspaper articles dealing with his criminal activity. Both victims were associated with a gang known as the A Team, led by a man called Stephen Britton, the jury was told. He was stabbed three times in the legs and taken to Hickey Farm at Astley Moss, Tyldesley. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. 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Laurence Lowry Court is off Lowry Drive, close to Station Road, where the artist it was named after lived. An emotive appeal issued by police on Thursday, including a picture of Christian in his hospital bed with a cuddly toy and his left leg bandaged, was designed specifically to tug at the heartstrings of Salford mothers. They are also seeking a second man in connection with the assault. 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. The brother-in-law of an underworld "Mr Big" was involved in his assassination, Liverpool crown court has heard. Mr Lydiate has never been charged with any offence connected to the murder. Was the Fight for Irish Independence Pointless. Salford, Lancashire, M7. Im sitting there shaking in my shoes, not being afraid but thinking what is happening here? said McKie. It's free, easy and takes no time at all. 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