Liverpool machine gun murder: Four men convicted of Ashley Dale shooting

Four men have been found guilty of murdering Ashley Dale after she was shot dead with a machine gun at her home. Today at Liverpool Crown Court, four of the six men on trial were convicted of killing 28-year-old Ashley on August 21 last year. James Witham, 41, Joseph Peers, 29, Niall Barry, 26, and Sean Zeisz, 28, were found guilty and will be sentenced on Wednesday. The court heard council worker Ashley was not the intended target and was shot as a gunman burst in looking for her partner. She was home alone with her dog when James Witham killed her with a Skorpian machine gun. Witham, Peers, Barry and Zeisz were also convicted of conspiracy to murder Miss Dale’s partner Lee Harrison and conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon, a Skorpion sub-machine gun, and ammunition. Ian Fitzgibbon, who had also been on trial, was cleared of all charges after denying murder, manslaughter, conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to possess firearms. A sixth man, Kallum Radford, was found not guilty of assisting an offender. Original Article: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/four-men-found-guilty-shooting-31484665 Daily Record Homepage: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ Daily Record Facebook: https://facebook.com/TheScottishDailyRecord Daily Record IG: https://instagram.com/scottishdailyrecord Daily Record Twitter: https://twitter.com/Daily_Record Daily Record Newsletters: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/newsletter-preference-centre/ Join our WhatsApp communities here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages: DAILY RECORD: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/join-daily-records-whatsapp-community-31116469 You can get all the latest news, sport, showbiz and comment at DailyRecord.co.uk LIKE | COMMENT | SUBSCRIBE | SHARE #DailyRecord #liverpool #murder