The household of a council employee who was shot in her house broke down in tears as her closing messages had been learn to a court docket.
Environmental well being employee Ashley Dale, 28, was fatally shot in her house in Previous Swan, Liverpoolin the early hours of August 21 final 12 months.
5 males – James Witham, 41, Niall Barry, 26, Sean Zeisz, 28, Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, and Joseph Friends, 29 – deny her homicide, which is alleged to have occurred following a feud along with her accomplice Lee Harrison.
On Tuesday, a selfie of Ms Dale along with her dachshund Darla, taken lower than an hour earlier than her dying, was proven to her trial at Liverpool Crown Court docket.
The court docket heard she despatched the image to a pal at 11.51pm on August 20 with the message: “Any want for my youngster.
“I’ve by no means identified something prefer it. She’s fearful of one thing exterior earlier than in again a cat or a rat. She’s bought me nerves gone coz am fearful of each.
“And now gained’t go away me facet like an precise child.”
The jury was additionally proven pictures of harm triggered to the tyres of Ms Dale’s automobile, which had been allegedly slashed at 11.40pm on August 20 in an try to lure the occupants of her house on Leinster Street exterior.
The court docket heard Ms Dale messaged her mom, Julie Dale, at 11.46pm, after the tyres had been broken, and advised her rain had set off her automobile alarm.
Her mom replied: “Bloody hell actually. Wanna see the leaves spherical right here.”
Ms Dale messaged her mom saying: “Noticed that on the information immediately x
“Due to the warmth wave x.”
Detective Sergeant Graeme Sutton advised the court docket: “The final message to her mum learn ‘world’s ending’.”
Mrs Dale was in tears because the final messages her daughter despatched her had been proven to the court docket.
Tissues had been handed to different family and buddies in tears within the public gallery of the court docket.
At 11.40pm, Ms Dale despatched a message to her accomplice Mr Harrison saying her automobile alarm was going off.
He replied simply over 20 minutes later saying: “Hahahaha you suppose your in a horror film.
“R u okay? Alive.”
At 12.07am, lower than half an hour earlier than she was shot, Ms Dale replied: “No I’m lifeless.”
The jury was advised information from Ms Dale’s telephone confirmed at 12.32am she moved 5 steps.
Cellphone data present she known as Mr Harrison at 12.33am however he didn’t reply and she or he left a one minute 43 second voicemail.
CCTV confirmed the Hyundai used within the capturing drove onto Ms Dale’s highway at 12.30am and left the highway two minutes 36 seconds later.
Ashley’s father Steve Dunne walked out of court docket as physique worn footage exhibiting law enforcement officials arriving on the home was performed.
Mrs Dale and Ashley’s stepfather, Rob Jones, left as medical proof was learn to the jury.
Alex Langhorn, prosecuting, mentioned Ms Dale had been hit within the stomach by a bullet which handed via her liver and the suitable chamber of her coronary heart.
She was pronounced lifeless at hospital at 1.48am, the court docket heard.
Witham, of Huyton, admits Ms Dale’s manslaughter however denies homicide.
He and his 4 co-defendants additionally deny conspiracy to homicide Mr Harrison and conspiracy to own a prohibited weapon, a Skorpion sub-machine gun, and ammunition.
Kallum Radford, 26, of no fastened handle, denies aiding an offender.
The trial will proceed on Wednesday.