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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eleanor Barlow

Murder accused said he would shoot victim’s boyfriend, court hears

A man accused of the murder of a council worker said he would shoot her boyfriend, according to messages she sent to friends in the weeks before her death.

Environmental health worker Ashley Dale, 28, was hit in the abdomen by a bullet when gunman James Witham, 41, kicked down the door of her home in Old Swan, Liverpool, on August 21 last year, his trial at Liverpool Crown Court has heard.

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