COURTS
Girlfriend shot dead ‘to send a message after Glastonbury row’
Ashley Dale was hunted down in a feud between rivals, court told
Ashley Dale was killed at her home in Old Swan, Liverpool, while her boyfriend, Lee Harrison, was out
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A council worker was “deliberately and mercilessly” shot dead in her home in a revenge killing after a gangster was “humiliated” by rivals at Glastonbury festival, a court has heard.
Ashley Dale, 28, died at her home in Old Swan, Liverpool, on August 21 last year after she was shot in the stomach. The bullet was fired from a Cold War-era Skorpion sub-machinegun.
Sean Zeisz, 28, Niall Barry, 26, Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, Joseph Peers, 29, and James Witham, 41, are accused of her murder, which the Crown alleges was a targeted attack intended to “send a message” to her boyfriend, Lee Harrison, 26.
Opening the case for the prosecution, Paul Greaney KC told Liverpool crown court that Fitzgibbon, Zeisz and Barry dispatched Witham and Peers