The jailed hitman who shot dead Salford Mr Big Paul Massey is stabbed in prison

A hitman who murdered Salford's 'Mr Big' Paul Massey has been attacked again in prison, the M.E.N. can reveal.

Mark Fellows, 42, dubbed The Iceman, was stabbed in the head and the neck at the maximum security HMP Wakefield on Saturday.

The double murderer was treated by prison medics. He was left with a scar after a similar attack in 2019.

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Fellows was the the 'gun for hire' called on to slaughter a leading figure in a rival gang, Paul Massey, 55, in 2015 with an Uzi sub-machine gun.

Dressed in army fatigues, he peppered Massey with shots and then pursued his target up the driveway of his home on Manchester Road in Clifton, Salford, to finish him off. Known as Salford's 'Mr Big', Massey was one the city's most notorious and feared figures but he died on his own doorstep.

Three years later Fellows murdered Massey's pal from Liverpool, John 'Scouse' Kinsella, 53. The hitman cycled up to his target near the village of Rainhill in Merseyside as his target walked his dogs. The assassin shot him twice in the back and then calmly approached his stricken victim to shoot him twice more in the back of the head.

Fellows was handed a rare whole-life term in January 2019 following 26-day trial which ended with him being convicted of two counts of murder.

Jailing him, Mr Justice William Davis said: "So far as is known you had no personal animus in relation to Paul Massey.

"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."

He was handed a 'whole life' term, which means he cannot apply for parole and will probably die in prison. Just two weeks after he shot dead Massey, Fellows was shot