Jurors were shown footage of James Witham and Joseph Peers' movements before the killing. Witham has admitted manslaughter but denies murder
CCTV footage captured the moment the man who killed Ashley Dale smiled as he bought beer from a shop just hours before she was shot dead.
Witham, 41, has admitted kicking through the front door of Ashley's home. He accepts firing the gun 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. The pair had driven there in a grey Hyundai i30N car, later recorded on Leinster Road when Ashley was shot. A camera outside showed the two men talking to the woman, before Peers took out what appeared to be a phone and passed it to her.
Detective Sergeant Graeme Sutton, under questioning from Alex Langhorn, junior counsel for the prosecution, told the jury Barry did not emerge again until after the shooting. However the others came and went a number of times, making several journeys to local shops and further afield. Witham then went to watch Everton vs Nottingham Forest, with a transaction recorded in his name at 2.27pm at Willow Catering, a food provider near the stadium. Later that evening, shortly before 6pm, Fitzgibbon and Peers are seen buying sweets and a pay-as-you-go top up at a Go Local store on Pilch Lane near the flat.
After a few minutes hanging around the fish and chip shop, Zeisz entered the flat. By 9.30pm; Witham, Peers, Fitzgibbon, Zeisz and Barry were all inside the flat.
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