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Gunman who shot dead Ashley Dale in her home deposited £1,000 cash into his bank account two days after killing, court told

The gunman who shot and killed council worker Ashley Dale in her home deposited £1,000 cash into his bank account two days after the shooting, a court has heard.

Environmental health worker Ashley Dale, 28, was shot with a Skorpion machine pistol at home in Old Swan, Liverpool, in the early hours of August 21 last year by gunman James Witham, who admits manslaughter.

Witham, 41, and four other defendants - Niall Barry, 26, Sean Zeisz, 28, Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, and Joseph Peers, 29 - deny her murder, which is alleged to have happened following a feud with her partner Lee Harrison.