MVC Delete Action Link Not Working

Question

My Action link looks like so:

<%= Html.ActionLink("Delete Message", "DeleteMessage", new { messageId=item.MESSAGEID })%>

And my Action in my controller looks like so:

    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Delete)]
    public ActionResult DeleteMessage(int messageId)
    {

        Message message = context.Messages.FirstOrDefault(m => m.MESSAGEID.Equals(messageId));
        if (message != null)
        {
            context.Messages.DeleteOnSubmit(message);
            context.SubmitChanges();
        }
        return View();
    }

But for some reason, the item in my model still does not get deleted. Where have I gone wrong?