Two men deny murdering Ashley Dale in Old Swan
Ashley was 28 when she was shot dead at her home last August
Two men have denied the murder of Ashley Dale, who was shot dead at her home in Old Swan.
The 28 year old Knowsley Council worker was found with a gunshot wound in her back garden on August 21 last year.
Sean Zeisz, 27, and Niall Barry, 26, entered not guilty pleas to her murder at a hearing at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday.
The two men also pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to murder Lee Harrison and conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon, a Skorpion sub-machine gun, and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
Zeisz, of Longreach Road, Huyton; and Barry, of Moscow Drive, Tuebrook; appeared via videolink from HMP Wakefield.
Two other men: James Witham, 41; and Joseph Peers, 28; pleaded not guilty to the charges at an earlier hearing.
They are set to stand trial at Liverpool Crown Court on October 2 along with Kallum Radford, who denies assisting an offender.
Ms Dale, an environmental health officer for Knowsley Council, was one of three people fatally shot within a week in Liverpool last year: nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed in her home in Dovecot on August 22; and Sam Rimmer, 22, was shot in Dingle on August 16.