Ashley Dale 'tried to call boyfriend after being shot', trial hears
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAshley Dale 'tried to call her boyfriend after being shot' a trial jury has heard. The Knowsley Council worker, 28, was shot in the abdomen when gunman James Witham, 41, kicked down the door of her home in Old Swan, on August 21 last year, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
Witham has admitted manslaughter but he and four other men - Niall Barry, 26, Sean Zeisz, 28, Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, Joseph Peers, 29 - deny Ashley's murder.
The court heard how Ashley's phone made a one minute, 43 second voicemail call to her boyfriend Lee Harrison at 12.33am on August 21 last year, however he did not answer the call, the ECHO reports. READ MORE The latest court news and headlines here READ MORE Two men raped a sobbing woman in an alleyway near Piccadilly Gardens while a third stood look-out, court hears Witness Detective Sergeant Graham Sutton said at 12.32am a sensor on Ashley’s phone showed it moved a distance of five steps, a distance of 4.33 metres.
At 12.33am, the voicemail call from Ashley's phone was made to Harrison. Then at 12.37am, a Ring doorbell camera opposite Ashley’s home activated and showed the front door of Ashley’s home was missing.
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