On a rainy Saturday in August last year, Ashley Dale was enjoying a quiet night in, watching TV in her pyjamas with her dog Darla beside her, when her front door was knocked down and she was shot dead with a Skorpion submachine gun.
The 28-year-old council worker was days away from starting a promotion at work when she was gunned down in her home on Leinster Road in Old Swan, Liverpool.
It was a tangled web of fighting over drugs, women and revenge - with her boyfriend Lee Harrison at the heart of it - that led to her tragic death, the Liverpool Echo reports.
The gunman, James Witham, and his driver, Joseph Peers, had been sent to Ashley's home by Niall Barry, a tall, stocky drug and firearms trafficker, who went by the nickname 'Branch'.
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