Man ‘linked to murder of Mr Big by fitness watch fired 18 rounds from an Uzi’

A HITMAN fired 18 rounds from an Uzi to execute a mob Mr Big, a court heard yesterday.

Victim Paul Massey dived for cover behind bins and rang for help as the gunman walked up his drive to finish him off, it was said.

Alleged killer Mark Fellows, 38, had been placed at the scene by information on his fitness tracker watch, prosecutors claim.

And jurors were shown photographs of him appearing to be wearing the GPS device as he completed a 10km run in Manchester.

Relatives of Massey, 55, wept as Liverpool crown court was also shown a photo in which his body could be seen in the distance.

Prosecutor Paul Greaney QC said Massey was targeted as he returned to his Salford home clutching Bacardi and two bottles of coke from a nearby Bargain Booze in July 2015.

Three years later “friend and associate” John Kinsella, 53, was shot dead outside his home in Rainhill, Merseyside.

Mr Greaney said Fellows and his “spotter” Steven Boyle, 35, had been linked to the second murder scene by CCTV footage.

He added that when police arrested Fellows they found his Garmin Forerunner watch showed he had ridden on his bike to Massey’s house in a “reconnaissance run” weeks before the killing.

He said both Massey and Kinsella were gunned down in a feud between rival gangs.

Fellows, of Warrington, and Boyle, of Heywood, deny the “stone cold murders” as well as the attempted murder of Kinsella’s partner Wendy Owen.

The trial, expected to last six weeks continues.

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