Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor In August 2021, as the U.S. withdrew forces from Afghanistan and the Taliban took power, many people fled the country. But despite having U.S.
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Police stumbled on the car used during the shooting of Ashley Dale by chance after being called to a domestic incident, a trial has heard.
The Knowsley Council worker died aged 28 after being shot in the abdomen and collapsing in the back yard of her home on Leinster Road, Old Swan, 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 had 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 Liverpool Echo reports.
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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.
PC Sam Ward was called to give evidence to the jury yesterday afternoon (October 17). He described how a Hyundai i30N Performance which was used to transport the gunman to and from the scene was found parked on the driveway of a house on Waring Avenue in St Helens on October 9 2022.
It came after officers were called to "reports of a domestic incident" which was said to be entirely "unrelated to this case". PC Ward said of his attendance at the scene: "I immediately noticed a vehicle parked next to the house.
"It was a vehicle which I believed to be of interest. It had been circulated as part of our briefings, which we have on a daily basis, as being involved in some way in the murder case.
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Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor In August 2021, as the U.S. withdrew forces from Afghanistan and the Taliban took power, many people fled the country. But despite having U.S.
The man accused of setting up the shooting that killed Ashley Dale in Liverpool has told the jury at his trial "I had no authority to send anyone to anyone’s house and I didn’t."
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The trial of five men accused of murder over the fatal shooting of Ashley Dale has continued for a second week.James Witham, of Ashbury Road in Huyton, 28-year-old Sean Zeisz, of Longreach Road in Huyton, 26-year-old Niall Barry, of Moscow Drive in Tuebrook, 28-year-old Joseph Peers, of Woodlands Road in Roby, and 28-year-old Ian Fitzgibbon, of Heigham Gardens in St Helens, have pleaded not guilty to murdering the Knowsley Council worker, conspiracy to murder her boyfriend Lee Harrison and conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon, namely a Skorpion submachine gun, and ammunition with intent to endanger life. Witham, 41, has admitted the lesser charge of manslaughter, having shot the 28-year-old victim dead in her home on Leinster Road in Old Swan, Liverpool, in the early hours of August 21 last year.
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