Ashley Dale is also likely to have been trying to reach her “only escape” when she was hit - with the gunman following her through her home, he added.
A council worker killed in her own home was likely to have been shot at 'as a target' rather than 'just randomly', a firearms expert has told a court.
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. He said the environmental health worker was likely to have been shot as she stood next to a bar stool in the kitchen, which was found to have a bullet inside.
“She had then moved towards her only escape, the rear door, and the shooter followed the same route and fired shots in the direction that Ashley was attempting to escape." He said: “I would favour the proposition that perhaps they were fired at a target, as opposed to just randomly.”
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