We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Staring arrogantly from a police mugshot, Stephen Britton, 31, was said to be the boss of Salford's notorious A Team, a band of about 50 serious villains. In an attempt to blend in the criminals dressed up as old women and wore wigs. Do you want to stay up to date of all the news about UK news & fclid=8a060273-de0f-11ec-b202-5dfed70a260a & &. dn. The then-warden at the complex and her friend were intimidated and forced to harbour the gang. 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. The gang then demanded that he tell them where a 'suspect' lived. He was threatened with rape and shown a shallow grave which his captors said they had dug for him. I am Assistant Director of Customer and Digital Services at Salford City Council, supporting the directly elected City Mayor delivering local public services and improving the lives of our fast growing and diverse 260,000 population, leading a department with over 400 staff, a net revenue budget of 30M and a capital investment programme of 2M p/a.<br><br>Portfolio includes:<br> Digital . His partner Wendy Owen told the court that Kinsella was no longer involved in crime and was a car dealer at the time of his death. He has been bailed until next month. Walsh is thought to have begun his criminal career after being recruited from an underworld 'job centre' in which unemployed youths volunteer to carry out robberies in return for drug money. At one point during the spate of attacks, some of the Lydiate gang hid from police at an old people's home in Salford. Neil Parsons needed 167 stitches after he was attacked at a lobster festival at. 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. He was taken to hospital but his injuries were not. By The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. He set about putting together a gang to find out who ordered the attempt on his life. ", Met Office map shows the areas where snow is forecast to fall in Greater Manchester next week, Temperatures across the region will drop dramatically over the weekend, Erik ten Hag will not make the same mistake Manchester United made last time at Liverpool. Moss Side, the scene of much of the violence, was labelled the British Bronx. A third man was attacked by the gang - they stabbed him in the leg and foot and then dragged him into a back yard. Fellows' childhood friend Steven Boyle, 36, who helped him organise the murder of Kinsella, 53, was jailed for life with a minimum of 33 years. Other occupants . He later checked himself out of hospital while there was still a bullet lodged in his groin, and began plotting a bloody revenge. 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. The package contained 990 grams of cocaine, with a purity of 83 per cent and a street value of up to 160,000. But it became part of one of the most bizarre episodes in the criminal history of Salford. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RealPorridgeSamSupport the channel, join my Patreon! In respect of the murder of John Kinsella the sentence on you is life imprisonment with a minimum term of 33 years. Muscleman Erdman became known to police in 2000 after he was arrested and charged over a string of . It lay within the civil parish boundaries of Manchester St Mary and St Denys (The Cathedral Church). Threats were made against his family, and he was asked to tell them where a 'suspect' lived. Fellows was slashed with a razor blade by a gang member at HMP Whitemoor. Join Facebook to connect with Jessica Lydiate and others you may know. Guns were put into his mouth and he was hit on the head with a machete. One police source acknowledged that the explosion of violence took the police force by surprise but added: One name keeps cropping up: Paul Massey. After he was released he decided to kill Kinsella who blamed him for Massey's murder. Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (695) NRA 20906 Abbatt family of Preston: corresp and papers link to online catalogue. When police searched the cab, they found a large brick-shaped package wrapped in tape and stashed in a plastic bag. Mr Kinsella, who lived nearby, had been out walking his dogs when Fellows came cycling up behind him and opened fire. Boyle and Fellows both joined the anti-A team faction which fought a violent gang war with their enemies on the streets of Salford. Laurence Lowry Court is off Lowry Drive, close to Station Road, where the artist it was named after lived. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Liverpool transfer news, rumours, gossip and speculation including updates on Roberto Firmino, Manuel Locatelli, Naby Keita and Mason Mount. There is no suggestion that Michael Boyle was involved in the murders of Massey or Kinsella. He was jailed for 22 years. Hugo Gye Preston Crown Court was told that Stephen Lydiate and his associates began a spree of "extreme terror and violence" after he had been shot in a Salford pub. Walsh served around four years in prison before his release in 2007. Gang leader Stephen Lydiate, of Vestris Drive,. Sign up to the Daily Star's newsletter. 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The two dead men, both in their twenties, died where they fell, 20 yards apart on the grass. He heard the gun click several times and it was placed in his mouth. Police had 'intelligence' Stephen Lydiate was involved in the murder even though he had never been charged, it was said. The pub's CCTV hard drive was stolen shortly after the killing and the murder weapon has not been recovered, while gangsters waged a graffiti campaign warning locals against speaking out.