Environmental health worker Ashley Dale was shot with a Skorpion machine pistol in Old Swan, Liverpool, at about 12.30am on August 21 last year.
The man who admits shooting a 28-year-old woman in her home with a machine gun says the last year has been "torture" for him.
Witham gave evidence as Miss Dale’s mother Julie Dale, step-father Rob Jones and other relatives watched from the public gallery. He denied working for co-defendant Niall Barry, who, the court has been told, had access to firearms.Witham said he fired shots in the house of Miss Dale as a “warning” to her partner Mr Harrison, who he claimed robbed him.
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