Prisoner carried out £2k hit on crime lord in Strangeways yard

A PRISON ‘hitman’ serving a life sentence earned thousands of pounds by targeting fellow inmates and staging pre-arranged fights behind bars, a court was told

- HARRISON GALLIVEN AND PAUL BRITTON

Gary Moody, 37, was paid to attack other prisoners in contract hits and take part in bare knuckle bouts between convicts, a judge heard.

The convicted robber was arrested in 2020 after slashing the face of former bouncer Christopher Zammit, from Salford, in an exercise yard at HMP Manchester, also known as Strangeways.

In the days after the attack, Moody rang a relative to ask if a £2,000 bounty he had been promised for the hit had arrived in a bank account. He said: “I have done them proud, I have done it for them.” At Manchester Crown Court, Moody was jailed for another eight years after he was convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent.