Ashley Dale: Police launch murder probe after fatal shooting

A man has been extradited from Spain and charged with the murder of a young woman who was shot in the back garden of her home in Liverpool.

Ian Fitzgibbon, 28, was charged with the murder of council worker Ashley Dale, also 28, who was found with a gunshot wound in the back garden of her home in Old Swan, Liverpool, on August 21 last year.  Fitzgibbon was arrested by the Spanish National Police and extradited from Spain, with the support of the NCA’s National Extradition Unit, on Thursday (August 24) afternoon on a Trade and Co-operation agreement, Merseyside Police said.

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Fitzgibbon, from St Helens, has also been charged with conspiracy to murder Lee Harrison, possession of a prohibited weapon, namely a Skorpion sub machine gun pistol and associated ammunition with intent to endanger life, and conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon namely a Skorpion sub machine gun and associated ammunition.

 Fitzgibbon will appear at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

Sean Zeisz, 27, Niall Barry, 26, James Witham, 41, and Joseph Peers, 28, have also been charged with Ms Dale’s murder and are due to stand trial on October 2.

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