Man accused of hiding getaway car after Ashley Dale shooting claims murder suspects are 'horrible rats'

A man accused of hiding a getaway car used in the shooting of Ashley Dale told detectives his co-defendants were "horrible rats" who "threw me under the bus".

Kallum Radford, 26, originally from St Helens, named 29-year-old Joseph Peers as the man who allegedly approached him about finding somewhere to stash a car in the hours after Ashley was killed on August 21, 2022.

Ashley was shot with a Skorpion sub-machine gun and collapsed in the backyard of her home, in Leinster Road, Liverpool, after a gunman kicked through the front door, the ECHO reports.

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James Witham, 41, admits being that gunman but will claim he did not see or hear Ashley and was attempting to "send a message" to her boyfriend Lee Harrison, who was not at the home they shared at the time. He has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder.

The prosecution case is that Witham and Peers 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.

A jury at Liverpool Crown Court today watched video recordings of Radford's three police interviews, two in October 2022 and one in January early this year, after he handed himself into police and was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

In his first interview, he claimed two men, who he did not recognise, approached him at random and asked if he knew of somewhere they could store a grey Hyundai, because "someone was threatening to smash it up round ours".

Radford said they offered him £100, which