Ashley Dale was shot in her Liverpool home by a gunman looking for her partner, a trial has heard.
A neighbour of council worker Ashley Dale has described how she heard screaming and swearing on the night she was shot.Liverpool Crown Court has heard she was not the intended target as a gunman burst into the home looking for her partner.James Witham, 41, has admitted her manslaughter but denies murder.
Miss Dale's neighbour, who cannot be named for legal reasons, earlier told the jury how she was watching television in bed at half past midnight on the night of the shooting. The neighbour told jurors that two or three seconds after the second noise she heard "a girl scream and then I heard her scream again".Under cross examination by Richard Pratt KC, defending Mr Witham, the neighbour said she was not able to say if the noises and screaming came from indoors or outdoors.
Under cross examination, the second neighbour agreed that in a witness statement given last August, she said she was "half asleep" at the time.
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