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The mother of one of the men accused of the murder of Ashley Dale cried in court after being accused of telling a 'pack of lies.' Joseph Peers, 29, is alleged by prosecutors to have been the driver in the killing of environmental health officer Ashley.
The 28-year-old died after being shot with a Skorpion machine pistol at her home in the Old Swan area of Liverpool in the early hours of August 21 last year.
Gas fitter Mr Peers, was at his home, on Woodlands Road, in the Roby area of Merseyside with his parents and was watching the boxing fight between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk at the time, he has previously told Liverpool Crown Court.
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On Wednesday, Mr Peer's mother Lesley McMahon told jurors she had been in her bedroom just after 11pm on August 20 when Peers returned home and brought her a cup of tea. Cross-examining her, Paul Greaney KC, prosecuting, said: “Sadly, what you have done is tell this jury a pack of lies.”
Mrs McMahon replied: “You prove that.” She later added: “When you’ve got evidence to put before the court to call me a liar you may call me that.”
Following questioning about whether she had spoken to her husband about the timings of what happened on the night of the shooting, Mrs McMahon said she was “nervous” and appeared to become upset, wiping away tears with a tissue.
She told the court she had not viewed CCTV from the family home which would show her son returning home, and the recorder had since been damaged in a house move and was now in landfill. Ms McMahon said she loved her children “dearly” and, when asked if she was
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