Five men are currently on trial accused of murdering 28-year-old council worker shot dead in her own home
Ian Fitzgibbon has told a jury he wanted to "warn" Ashley Dale's boyfriend that one of the other men accused of her murder had threatened to "stab him up".
He said: "They say you are an organiser of this terrible event - the killing, the murder of Ashley Dale, with the target originally of Lee Harrison. Were you an organiser in any way of that?"Mr Cooper continued: "It’s the crown’s case that you were part of organising that hit. Did you in any way get involved?"
When asked whether he knew Ashley, he said: "Yeah I knew Ashley for years as well. She’s friends with our Olivia , me sisters. She’s a lovely girl." Fitzgibbon said: "He didn’t do nothing towards me. In his pocket he pulled out a knife, showed that he had a knife in his pocket. Mr Cooper then referenced a series of messages exchanged between Ashley's and Fitzgibbon's phones over the course of the Saturday of the festival. Harrison was said to be using Ms Dale's phone to communicate with him at this time.
He stated that he was "checking up on him" and added: "Just after the comments were made, I'm making sure he’s alright. He’s only with Ashley, Dusty and his cousin. The court heard that, at around 11.40pm on August 20 2022, two men approached Ashley’s white Volkswagen T-Roc car - which was parked outside the house - and slashed its tyres, causing the alarm to sound, in an effort to "lure" the occupants out. But it is thought Ashley believed the alarm had been set off by heavy rain and did not leave her house.
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