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Ashley Dale 'tried to call her boyfriend after being shot' a trial jury has heard. The Knowsley Council worker, 28, was shot in the abdomen when gunman James Witham, 41, kicked down the door of her home in Old Swan, on August 21 last year, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
Witham has admitted manslaughter but he and four other men - Niall Barry, 26, Sean Zeisz, 28, Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, Joseph Peers, 29 - deny Ashley's murder.
The court heard how Ashley's phone made a one minute, 43 second voicemail call to her boyfriend Lee Harrison at 12.33am on August 21 last year, however he did not answer the call, the ECHO reports.
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Witness Detective Sergeant Graham Sutton said at 12.32am a sensor on Ashley’s phone showed it moved a distance of five steps, a distance of 4.33 metres.
At 12.33am, the voicemail call from Ashley's phone was made to Harrison. Then at 12.37am, a Ring doorbell camera opposite Ashley’s home activated and showed the front door of Ashley’s home was missing.
The jury heard the camera was only activated by movement up to the front gate of the property. Prosecuting, Alex Langhorn said a 999 call was made at 12.41am by a neighbour called Colin Morris.
Officers then attended Mr Morris's home at 2.27am on August 21, where they used their body worn cameras to record some footage from his front garden. Liverpool Crown Court heard how Mr Morris lived in Munster Road, which runs parallel to Leinster Road, with houses backing on to each other.
Audio of the 999 call from Mr Morris was played to the jury. He said: “Hiya love we live in Old Swan, L14,
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