'My car alarm is going off'
A jury was shown the heartbreaking last photo of Ashley Dale and her final messages to her mum and friends just minutes before she was killed.
Witham accepts opening fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun and firing the bullet that killed Ashley, but will claim he did not see or hear her and was instead attempting to 'send a message' to her boyfriend, 25-year-old Lee Harrison, who was not at home. He has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder.
Six minutes later she sent a WhatsApp message to her mum, Julie Dale, saying: “The rain just set my car alarm off x”. The jury heard that was her last contact with her mum. Ms Dale and other members of her family were seen in tears in the public gallery as the messages were read out by DS Sutton. Mr Langhorn told the jury a 999 call, made by a man living behind Ashley's home, Colin Morris, described Ashley lying in her back yard "groaning". Police attended the property, and body-worn footage showed officers making their way through the house, noticing bullet holes on the wall.
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