Ashley Dale murder trial latest as jury told submachine gun used was capable of firing up to '15 rounds a second'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe 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.
Five men are on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of her murder, the Liverpool Echo reports. Jurors previously heard James Witham 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 41-year-old will claim that he did not see or hear Ashley, and was attempting to 'send a message' to her boyfriend Lee Harrison, 25, who was not home at the time.
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