Ashley Dale murder accused Sean Zeisz was 'embarrassed' after 'running and hiding' following Glastonbury attack court hears

One of the men accused of the murder of Ashley Dale who was shot dead in Liverpool has told jurors he was "embarrassed" having "run and hid" after being attacked at Glastonbury.

Sean Zeisz is one of five men currently on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of the murder of the 28-year-old Knowsley Council worker.

She died after being shot in the stomaching and collapsing in the back yard of her home in the Old Swan area of Liverpool shortly after midnight on August 21 last year.

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James Witham had admitted kicking down the door of her house, where she was spending the evening alone with her dachshund Darla, and spraying the property with bullets from a Skorpion submachine gun.

The 41-year-old is expected to claim he did not see or hear Ashley and was instead attempting to "send a message" to her boyfriend Lee Harrison, who was not present at the time.

On Tuesday (October 31), Zeisz spent a second-day giving evidence to the jury from the witness box. He was asked under cross-examination by Paul Greaney KC about events at Glastonbury Festival, which are said to have formed part of a feud involving Harrison and his associate Jordan Thompson in the weeks before the shooting, the Liverpool Echo reports.

The prosecutor put to him that he had been punched by the latter, nicknamed "Dusty", "in front of" his then-girlfriend, Olivia McDowell, and then "ran away and hid" behind a nearby bar, which he agreed with.

Mr Greaney asked: "Did you feel humiliated that all that had happened in front of your then partner, Liv?" Zeisz, who reported that he had actually been hit by a