John Kinsella

John Kinsella was a British criminal from Everton, Liverpool. He was shot dead in May 2018 by killers using encrypted EncroChat handsets to co-ordinate the murder.

Criminal history In 1991, Kinsella was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to nine years' imprisonment for attempted robbery and carrying a firearm with intent to commit an offence.

In 2006, he was involved in a robbery in Grantham, Lincolnshire, and was put on trial for it in 2008. During the trial, the jury was read a letter from the father of Steven Gerrard saying that Kinsella had stopped his son from being threatened by a criminal, George Bromley Jnr, known as "The Psycho" in 2001. When, during the trial, Kinsella was allowed into the court grounds during a lunch break, he absconded.

Kinsella's death was the result of a gang feud begun in 2015 between two rival criminal organisations in Salford.

Fellows was found guilty of the murders of both Kinsella and Massey in January 2019.