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Ashley Dale's devastated mum said her 'life might as well have ended' when her daughter was shot dead at her home in Merseyside.
The 28-year-old council worker was gunned down in her own home on Leinster Road in Old Swan, Liverpool, in the early hours of August 21 last year. Gunman James Witham, 41, forced open the door and fired 10 bullets in her dining room, one hitting Ms Dale in the abdomen as she stood by the back door, and five bullets into the wall of an upstairs bedroom.
At Liverpool Crown Court today (November 22), Witham and the three other killers - Joseph Peers, Niall Barry and Sean Zeisz - were jailed for a total of 173 years. Witham was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 43 years in prison, Peers was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 41 years, Barry was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 47 years and Zeisz was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 42 years.
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Before the sentencing, Julie Dale read a heartbreaking statement as the defendants watched on. During one part of her victim statement, Witham left the dock, the Echo reports.
She said since her daughter's death, 'time has stood still' and she described the past year as 'unbearable'.
She said: "03:45 on the 21st August 2022. The day I not only lost my daughter, but my best friend. The night we got that dreaded knock that no parent or family should ever have to get.
“Two police officers stood at my door, an image that will haunt me forever. I remember walking down the stairs, saying to Bobby (her partner) “I’m scared”, I know what this means. “Can we come in?”, they
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