'Foot soldiers' blew up BMW after Massey murder

TWO gang 'foot soldiers' were recruited to blow up a stolen car outside a rival's home as part of a new explosion of violence between two notorious Salford outfits, a court heard.

- JOHN SCHEERHOUT AND IMOGEN CLYDE-SMITH

Steven Curry, 44, and Shakur Watson, 21, travelled from Liverpool to set off an improvised grenade outside a home in. Ordsall in December 2019. They have now been jailed.

Yesterday it emerged the incident marked the another explosion of violence between the A-Team and a rival faction dubbed the Anti A-Team, a long-standing feud culminating in the fatal shooting of Salford 'Mr Big' Paul Massey on his doorstep in Clifton in 2015.

Now it can be revealed following the trial of Massey's killer, Mark Fellows, Salford was torn apart by yet another round of violence between the two gangs. The car bomb was one of a series of incidents in the city, including shootings and violence, in a two-week period between December 14 and December 31, 2019, according to GMP. Fellows, a hitman for the Anti A Team dubbed 'The Iceman, was jailed for life that year for Massey's assassination.