Niall Barry tells a court he was not the leader of an organised crime gang that shot Ashley Dale.
A man accused of murdering a woman in her home has denied he ordered the killing and told a court he had "no authority to send anyone" anywhere.The trial of five men accused of her murder at Liverpool Crown Court has heard her partner had been the intended target, due to a feud with Niall Barry.The 26-year-old and four other men deny murder, conspiracy to murder and firearms offences, while a sixth man denies assisting an offender.
"The first that a man left your company to attack the home of a man, who was someone you had fallen out with, with the type of firearm you had had access to, but all of that is entirely coincidental?" he said. He told the court he was dealing in drugs worth tens of thousands of pounds, but denied that Mr Witham had been working for him.
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