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Four men have been convicted of the murder of a woman who was shot with a machine gun in her home after a feud involving her boyfriend.
Ashley Dale, a 28-year-old environmental health officer, was killed when gunman James Witham, 41, forced open the door of her home in Old Swan, Liverpool, in the early hours of Aug 21 last year, firing 10 bullets in her dining room, one hitting her in the abdomen as she stood by the back door, and five bullets into the wall of an upstairs bedroom.
Witham admitted her manslaughter, but a jury at Liverpool Crown Court also found him guilty of her murder, along with fellow “foot soldier” Joseph Peers, 29, who the prosecution alleged drove a Hyundai to the scene and earlier helped Witham to stab tyres on Ms Dale’s car in an attempt to lure out the occupants of the house.
Niall Barry, 26, and Sean Zeisz, 28, were also convicted of murder after the jury heard they organised and encouraged the killing, which came after a feud between Miss Dale’s boyfriend Lee Harrison and Barry was re-ignited when Zeisz was assaulted at the Glastonbury festival last year.
Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, who was also accused of organising or encouraging the killing, was found not guilty of murder. Kallum Radford, 26, was found not guilty of assisting an offender by helping to store the car used in the murder.
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