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15:25Jonathan Humphries
PSI Rawsthorn: “Yes we did.”
PG: “Did they simply refuse to engage?”
PSI Rawsthorn agrees.
PG: “Did Lee Harrison again say he didn’t believe there was any threat to him?”
DR: “He did yes.”
He also said his iPhone had “gone”
PG: “Despite what was now a pattern of lack of cooperation, did you leave your details?”
DR: “Every time I went to visit Lee Harrison I left him with my details, and his mother, every time I went.”
On September 17, DC Sheedy and DC Hunter attended the same address.
PG: “Did they inform you Lee Harrison was in bed when they arrived and that’s where he remained throughout their attendance there?”
DR: “Yes.”
Mr Greaney says an “update was provided” and a DNA sample taken.
Officers says he was also present and spoke to his mum and dad, encouraging them to encourage him to assist with investigation but he did not do so
ON September 21 DCs Sheedy and Hunter attended.
DR: “I think that’s when they got the DNA samples.”
PG: “During that visit, Lee Harrison accepted it must have been a targeted attack as Ashley’s car tyres had been slashed but he denied the accounts from Ashley’s friends about what was in the background to all this.”
DR: “Yes, he dismissed that.”
PG: “Were you aware Detective Constable Sheedy formed the view Lee Harrison was nonchalant and unhelpful.”
DR: “He was unhelpful.”
PG: “Lee Harrison maintained he couldn’t believe Branch would be capable of killing Ashley as their fallout had happened over three years before.”
DR: “He mentioned that on several occasions.”
PG: “Branch knew Ashley and had been to their address as a friend. He said he wasn’t under threat and wouldn’t have his family living where they were living if he was under threat. He said he could offer no reason for the shooting of his partner.”
DR: “Yes, that’s correct.”
In reference to the messages to and from Ashley to her friends, Harrison said “didn’t know where that had come from.”
He denied having stored drugs or cash at 40 Leinster Road.
PSI Rawsthorn says it was pointed out that Harrison did not attend the wake for Rikki Warnick. “He said he hadn’t been to the funeral and it was nothing to do with any kind of threat.”
On November 12, DC Sheedy and Hunter attended Lee Harrison’s home and “discovered he was in Dubai”.
On January 31, an officer visited Lee Harrison’s address following his return from Dubai to “inform him two people had been charged with Ashley Dale’s murder”, Witham and Peers.
PG: “Did he tell you the location of a house party he’d been at in early hours of August 21?”
DR: “He did yes.”
PG: “Did he again maintain he still didn’t know why he or Ashley would have been targeted?”
DR: “He still didn’t cooperate or tell us any reason why she’d been killed.”
PG: “Did he ask why Zest and Barry hadn’t been reinterviewed?”
DR: “His words were have Zest and Branch not been charged.”
PG: “He told you James Witham was an old mate?”
DR: “Yes he did.”
PG: “And described Joseph Peers as an electrician from Roby?”
DR: “That’s correct.”
On July 27, DC Sheedy met with Lee Harrison and his family at the same address.
PG: “Was the reason for that visit to inform Lee Harrison that Niall Barry, Sean Zeisz, Joseph Peers and James Witham had been charged with Ashley Dale’s murder and conspiring to murder him?”
DR: “Yes that’s right.”
PG: “Did Lee Harrison say he didn’t believe they were capable or responsible as he was fine with them, except for one who he refused to name.
Did he state they must have been off their heads on drugs when they did it, but when asked who they were refused to say?”
The witness agrees
Mr Greaney asks if Harrison began “ranting about his name having been in the Liverpool Echo.”
DR: “He wasn’t happy about that at all.”
PG: “Was he frothing at the mouth and talking very rapidly about the impact on himself?”
DR: “He was generally very animated.”
He denied threats having been made by Sean Zeisz and says Zeisz and Olivia McDowell had been at Leinster Road drinking together two weeks before the shooting.
PG “That was the final visit. Harrison has been out of the UK in Dubai on a number of occasions?”
DR: “Yes he’s been out of the country on several occasions.”
Mr Rawsthorn says Harrison “would never give me a personal phone number” and he would have to “go through” his mum or sister.
He describes Harrison as “totally uncooperative” with the investigation.
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Lee Harrison told police Ashley's killer 'was an old mate'
Mr Greaney asks: “On August 30, did you and DC Sheedy visit Lee Harrison and his mother at the same address?”PSI Rawsthorn: “Yes we did.”
PG: “Did they simply refuse to engage?”
PSI Rawsthorn agrees.
PG: “Did Lee Harrison again say he didn’t believe there was any threat to him?”
DR: “He did yes.”
He also said his iPhone had “gone”
PG: “Despite what was now a pattern of lack of cooperation, did you leave your details?”
DR: “Every time I went to visit Lee Harrison I left him with my details, and his mother, every time I went.”
On September 17, DC Sheedy and DC Hunter attended the same address.
PG: “Did they inform you Lee Harrison was in bed when they arrived and that’s where he remained throughout their attendance there?”
DR: “Yes.”
Mr Greaney says an “update was provided” and a DNA sample taken.
Officers says he was also present and spoke to his mum and dad, encouraging them to encourage him to assist with investigation but he did not do so
ON September 21 DCs Sheedy and Hunter attended.
DR: “I think that’s when they got the DNA samples.”
PG: “During that visit, Lee Harrison accepted it must have been a targeted attack as Ashley’s car tyres had been slashed but he denied the accounts from Ashley’s friends about what was in the background to all this.”
DR: “Yes, he dismissed that.”
PG: “Were you aware Detective Constable Sheedy formed the view Lee Harrison was nonchalant and unhelpful.”
DR: “He was unhelpful.”
PG: “Lee Harrison maintained he couldn’t believe Branch would be capable of killing Ashley as their fallout had happened over three years before.”
DR: “He mentioned that on several occasions.”
PG: “Branch knew Ashley and had been to their address as a friend. He said he wasn’t under threat and wouldn’t have his family living where they were living if he was under threat. He said he could offer no reason for the shooting of his partner.”
DR: “Yes, that’s correct.”
In reference to the messages to and from Ashley to her friends, Harrison said “didn’t know where that had come from.”
He denied having stored drugs or cash at 40 Leinster Road.
PSI Rawsthorn says it was pointed out that Harrison did not attend the wake for Rikki Warnick. “He said he hadn’t been to the funeral and it was nothing to do with any kind of threat.”
On November 12, DC Sheedy and Hunter attended Lee Harrison’s home and “discovered he was in Dubai”.
On January 31, an officer visited Lee Harrison’s address following his return from Dubai to “inform him two people had been charged with Ashley Dale’s murder”, Witham and Peers.
PG: “Did he tell you the location of a house party he’d been at in early hours of August 21?”
DR: “He did yes.”
PG: “Did he again maintain he still didn’t know why he or Ashley would have been targeted?”
DR: “He still didn’t cooperate or tell us any reason why she’d been killed.”
PG: “Did he ask why Zest and Barry hadn’t been reinterviewed?”
DR: “His words were have Zest and Branch not been charged.”
PG: “He told you James Witham was an old mate?”
DR: “Yes he did.”
PG: “And described Joseph Peers as an electrician from Roby?”
DR: “That’s correct.”
On July 27, DC Sheedy met with Lee Harrison and his family at the same address.
PG: “Was the reason for that visit to inform Lee Harrison that Niall Barry, Sean Zeisz, Joseph Peers and James Witham had been charged with Ashley Dale’s murder and conspiring to murder him?”
DR: “Yes that’s right.”
PG: “Did Lee Harrison say he didn’t believe they were capable or responsible as he was fine with them, except for one who he refused to name.
Did he state they must have been off their heads on drugs when they did it, but when asked who they were refused to say?”
The witness agrees
Mr Greaney asks if Harrison began “ranting about his name having been in the Liverpool Echo.”
DR: “He wasn’t happy about that at all.”
PG: “Was he frothing at the mouth and talking very rapidly about the impact on himself?”
DR: “He was generally very animated.”
He denied threats having been made by Sean Zeisz and says Zeisz and Olivia McDowell had been at Leinster Road drinking together two weeks before the shooting.
PG “That was the final visit. Harrison has been out of the UK in Dubai on a number of occasions?”
DR: “Yes he’s been out of the country on several occasions.”
Mr Rawsthorn says Harrison “would never give me a personal phone number” and he would have to “go through” his mum or sister.
He describes Harrison as “totally uncooperative” with the investigation.
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Ashley Dale murder trial as it happens
The 28-year-old was shot dead at her home on Leinster Road in Old Swan