EXCLUSIVE: His family believes police failed to deliver a 'threat-to-life' notice properly weeks before he was fatally shot
Smiling on a ride at a funfair with three of his grandkids, Salford 's 'Mr Big' Paul Massey didn't appear to have a care in the world. Six weeks later he was dead, gunned down by a masked assassin on his own doorstep.
His family has now taken a first step towards a new independent investigation into the intelligence police had about the threat to his life before his July 2015 murder. Massey's daughter Kelly, 41, has been campaigning for a full inquest into the death to explore what police knew about the threats to his life. She has now persuaded Bolton area Alan Walsh to hold a pre-inquest review to determine whether a full inquest will go ahead.
The internal investigation found Massey was handed five 'Osman' warnings in his life, but said there was no record Massey received one - as his family claims - during his failed 2012 bid to become mayor of Salford. National police guidance says such warnings should handed over personally 'where appropriate', but can also be delivered in others ways, for instance over the phone if the subject is abroad.
"He was more at risk. It's been nine years now and I've never stopped. I've been pulling my hair out trying to get answers. Seven weeks later, my dad was killed."
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