A MAN has been found guilty of gunning down and killing an ‘underworld Mr Big and mob fixer’ in two gangland murders.

A jury today found Mark Fellows, of Sandy Lane West, guilty of murdering Paul Massey and John Kinsella in separate hits carried out nearly three years apart.

He was found guilty of the murder of Kinsella unanimously and guilty of the murder of Massey by majority of 10 to two.

But the 38-year-old was cleared of attempting to kill Kinsella's girlfriend.

The verdict follows a lengthy trial at Liverpool Crown Court, which began at the end of November.

Fellows and co-defendant Steven Boyle will be sentenced tomorrow, Thursday.

This was the 26th day of the trial, and the jury had been deliberating for a total of 31 hours and three minutes - having begun to consider its verdicts on Wednesday last week.

Nicknamed the ‘Iceman’, Fellows assassinated 55-year-old Mr Massey with a submachine gun outside his home in Salford on Sunday, July 26 2015.

On Saturday, May 5 2018, the 38-year-old then murdered Mr Kinsella – who had carried Mr Massey’s coffin at his funeral – near to junction seven of the M62.

Mr Kinsella, 53, was walking his dogs with his pregnant partner Wendy Owen near to their home in Rainhill when he was shot dead by Fellows.

The killer, who was riding a mountain bike, also shot at Ms Owen during the incident.

Later that month, Fellows - a sous chef who worked nights cooking sauces at the Greencore factory in Woolston - was arrested onboard a plane at Manchester Airport after returning from a holiday in Amsterdam.

This afternoon, Wednesday, he was found guilty of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder.

Thirty-six-year-old Boyle, of Heywood, was also found guilty of murdering Kinsella but cleared of killing Massey and attempting to kill Owen.