Niall Barry knew he was facing serious trouble when detectives investigating the murder of Ashley Dale downloaded the contents of her phone.
Ashley Dale murder accused Niall Barry 'thought he was hard' talking about guns on EncroChat trial hears
01.11.2023 - 23:29 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
One of the men accused of murdering Ashley Dale in Liverpool said he got involved in conversations about buying sub-machine guns because he was "young and stupid" and "trying to act hard".
Knowsley Council worker Ms Dale died aged 28 after being shot in the abdomen and collapsing in her back yard in the Old Swan area of the city shortly after midnight on August 21 last year.
Niall Barry, 26, has been described as having "heavy beef" with Ashley's boyfriend, Lee Harrison, due to a feud stretching back around three years. He was one of three men who allegedly "dispatched" James Witham, 41, and Joseph Peers, 29, to kill Harrison on the night Ms Dale died.
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A jury at Liverpool Crown Court has heard Barry was using the EncroChat encrypted phone service under the handle 'BetterTrunk', and was ultimately convicted of conspiracy to transfer a prohibited weapon, namely a sub-machine gun, on June 8 this year, the Liverpool Echo reports.
The messages, sent in early 2020, were recovered by police after the French authorities hacked EncroChat servers and downloaded data containing messages sent between different phones.
Witham has admitted kicking down the door of the house Ashley and Harrison shared and spraying the property with bullets from a Skorpion submachine gun. Witham, who has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder, will claim he did not see or hear Ashley and was instead attempting to "send a message" to Harrison, who was not present at the time.
The prosecution case is that Witham and Peers drove to the scene in a Hyundai
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