A woman shouted "who is it" as police officers battered down the door of her family home amid a series of raids this morning. Merseyside cops executed warrants at a number of properties in the area at 7am.
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A man accused of murdering council worker Ashley Dale says he stayed at a hotel with her killer the night after the shooting for a "swim, steam and sauna".
The 28-year-old, who worked at Knowsley Council, died after being shot in the abdomen and collapsing in her back yard on Leinster Road in Old Swan, Liverpool, shortly after midnight on August 21 last year. Five men are currently on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of her murder.
Jurors previously heard that James Witham kicked down the door of her house, where she was spending the evening alone with her dachshund Darla, before entering and shooting her with a Skorpion submachine gun. The 41-year-old is expected to claim he did not see or hear Ashley and was instead attempting to "send a message" to her boyfriend Lee Harrison, who was not present at the time, reports the Liverpool Echo.
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Another defendant, Joseph Peers, continued to give evidence to the jury for a second day today, Monday (October 23). He is accused of being Witham's "driver" on the night of the shooting.
His counsel, Peter Wright KC, asked about their stay at the Mercure Hotel in St Helens for two nights from the evening of August 21 onwards. Peers confirmed he had made the reservation via Booking.com, saying: "The next day when Witham come to ours, after he asked me if could I find somewhere to store the car, before he even got to that he asked did I want to go for a steam and sauna.
"The Mercure Hotel is actually a local gym where I go for a swim, steam and sauna, I use it quite regularly to
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