A suspect accused of the murder of Ashley Dale has claimed his friend's suicide was caused by a member of the 'Hillsiders' gang.
Rikki Warnick, was 'called a grass' by the Liverpool gang before he killed himself on July 21 last year, a jury has been told this week.
Mr Warnick died by suicide one month before Ashley was gunned down in her home by James Witham, 41. Sean Zeisz, one of the men accused of arranging the shooting, has told a jury that he blames Jordan Thompson, aka 'Dusty', for Mr Warnick ending his own life, the Liverpool ECHO reports.
A jury at Liverpool Crown Court has heard Thompson, from Radway Road in Huyton, was a friend of Ashley's boyfriend, 25-year-old Lee Harrison.
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