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".
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A man on trial accused of plotting a shooting which ended with a woman being shot dead in her own home may have been fuelled a years old feud, a murder trial heard. Ashley Dale was gunned down in her home in Liverpool after a man broke in and opened fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun, the Echo reports.
Prosecutors said that the intended target was her boyfriend Lee Harrison. They told jurors at Liverpool Crown Court that the motivation for the shooting was 'not straightforward to explain' but may have came from a feud with the 'Hillsiders' group.
Niall Barry, 26, aka 'Branch', is one of three men accused of "dispatching" a gunman to assassinate Harrison, his former friend, nicknamed 'Saz'. The killer, 41-year-old James Witham, kicked through the front door of Ashley's home in Leinster Road, Old Swan, and opened fire in the early hours of Sunday, August 21 last year.
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Ashley, however, was home alone with her small dog. As she tried to flee, a bullet fired by Witham struck her in the abdomen, causing "catastrophic" injuries. The 28-year-old environmental health officer collapsed in her back yard where she was heard groaning in pain by a neighbour.
The trial of six men in relation to her death began at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday (October 5), when the prosecution opened its case. Lead prosecutor Paul Greaney, KC, told the jury the Crown's case is that Witham and a second man, Joseph Peers, were sent by Barry and the other "organisers" - Sean Zeisz and Ian Fitzgibbon - who were "directing operations" from a flat in Pilch Lane, Huyton.
Mr Greaney said an important factor
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".
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The trial in the case of Ashley Dale has heard a gunman allegedly followed her through her home and shot at her as she fled towards her 'only escape route' after 'bashing in' her front door. 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.
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