Footage shows Ashley Dale's home minutes after she was shot dead

Police body-worn camera footage shows the moment the first officers arrived in the home of Ashley Dale and found it riddled with bullet holes.

The footage was taken from a camera worn by PC Darren Bratt, who found Ashley lying on her back in the rear yard of the house. It later emerged she had suffered "catastrophic" internal injuries from a bullet which struck her just below her ribs and exited her back.

The video, which was edited to stop before Ashley's body was shown, was played to a jury at Liverpool Crown Court this week where six men are standing trial in connection with the 28-year-old's death. James Witham, now 41, has admitted kicking through the front door of her home in Leinster Road, Old Swan, in the early hours of August 21 last year, the ECHO reports.

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Witham accepts opening fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun and firing the bullet that killed Ashley, but will claim he did not see or hear her and was instead attempting to "send a message" to her boyfriend, 25-year-old Lee Harrison, who was not at home. He has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder.

The prosecution case is that Witham and a second man, Joseph Peers, 29, were "dispatched" to kill Harrison by three men - Niall Barry, 26; Sean Zeisz, 28; and Ian Fitzgibbon, 28 - who were allegedly directing the hit from a flat in Pilch Lane, Huyton.

The footage from PC Bratt's camera shows the officers announce themselves at the door, before moving through the hallway and into the dining room. Bullet holes are visible around the door frame where the dining room opens