The family of Paul Massey told a coroner they feel 'punished, marginalised and criminalised' as they continue their fight for an inquest into his death.

The loved ones of Salford's 'Mr Big' are pushing for a full hearing to explore alleged police failures to protect him from threats on his life prior to his murder.

Massey received at least five so-called 'Osman' warnings during his life - from 2009 up until the weeks before assassin Mark Fellows blasted him to death with an Uzi sub-machine on the doorstep of his home in Clifton in July 2015.

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It came at the height of a vicious war between a Salford gang known as the A-Team - whose members considered Massey a mentor and elder - and a rival faction, the Anti A-Team.

Today (Thursday, August 21), h

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