'There can, suggests the prosecution, be no doubt that Ashley's death was murder,' Liverpool Crown Court was told on Thursday.
A council worker was shot dead after a row at Glastonbury music festival reignited a feud, a court has heard. Ashley Dale, 28, was hit in the abdomen by a bullet fired from a machine gun at her home in Liverpool on 21 August last year. Opening the trial of the five men accused of her murder at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday, Paul Greaney KC said: 'There can, suggests the prosecution, be no doubt that Ashley's death was murder.
' He said that on August 20, Fitzgibbon, Zeisz and Barry dispatched 'foot soldiers' Witham and the fifth defendant - Joseph Peers, 29 - armed with a Skorpion sub-machine gun to kill Mr Harrison at his home and 'to deal with anyone that got in their way, leaving behind no witnesses'. Miss Dale, whose family members wiped away tears at times during the opening, was at the couple's home on Leinster Road with her dog on the night of the attack, while Mr Harrison was out.
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