A drug dealer accused of murdering Ashley Dale in Liverpool had threatened her boyfriend in the month beforehand, a court has heard.Liverpool Crown Court has heard she was not the intended target as a gunman burst in looking for her partner Lee Harrison.
Miss Dale was shot with a Skorpion machine gun in the early hours of 21 August last year after an alleged feud between Mr Harrison and the five accused men.But he said they had stopped speaking in 2018 or 2019 because Mr Harrison was "hanging round" with people who had stolen £30,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis from him.He said he had phoned him after co-defendant James Witham, 41, said Mr Harrison had mentioned Mr Barry's name in an argument about the theft of drugs.
He said he was told Mr Harrison was there, along with people from a group known as the Hillsiders, who were the people who had robbed Mr Barry.He said the threat was not specifically towards Mr Harrison and he was drunk and "shouldn't have said it".'Talking nonsense' He said: "I was just talking nonsense basically, I was just basically thinking I was hard. I was young, I was only 22."
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