Sitting in the dock, the gangland assassin known as The Iceman clutched a pen he had been using to take notes. Fixing his co-accused Steven Boyle with a menacing stare he then drew it slowly across his throat.
Boyle had provided The Iceman - real name Mark Fellows - with crucial support as he planned the murder of his underworld enemy John Kinsella.
Fellows, who had already murdered Salford's Mr Big Paul Massey with a sub-machine gun on his doorstep, shot Kinsella dead in front of his pregnant partner in 2018 on a path off the M62.
Kinsella, who lived nearby, had been out walking his dogs when Fellows came cycling up behind him and opened fire. Kinsella, who had a long criminal record and was known to have been an 'enforcer' within Merseyside's underworld, was close friends with Massey. READ MORE: Manchester and Britain's most notorious serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga attacked in 'planned prison hit' The two men's deaths were part of a bloody gangland war in Salford that materialised after the area's gangs split into two warring factions.
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