Memilih catatan terakhir dari INNER JOIN dan pengelompokan

Maafkan sintaks saya jika agak salah, tetapi saya mungkin akan mencoba sesuatu seperti ini.

SELECT people.id, 
       people.avatar, 
       people.firstname, 
       people.lastname, 
       LEFT(msg.message, 90) AS message, 
       msg.seen, 
       msg.date 
FROM  people 
INNER JOIN (SELECT message, seen, date, sender_id
                FROM messages GROUP By sender_id 
                ORDER By date DESC LIMIT 1) msg
                ON people.id = msg.sender_id
WHERE      reciever_id = '". $user_data['id'] ."'