A person has been charged with homicide following the deadly capturing of council employee Ashley Dale in Liverpool.

Ms Dale, 28, was discovered with a gunshot wound in her backyard within the Old Swan space on 21 August final yr.

Ian Fitzgibbon, additionally 28, has been charged with homicide after being arrested by the Spanish National Police after which extradited to the UK, Merseyside Police stated.

Fitzgibbon, from St Helens, was additionally charged with conspiracy to homicide Lee Harrison, possession of a prohibited weapon [sub-machine gun pistol and ammunition] with intent to hazard life, and conspiracy to own a prohibited weapon [sub-machine gun and ammunition].

He will seem at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Friday.

It brings the variety of folks charged with the homicide of Ms Dale to 5.

Sean Zeisz, 27, Niall Barry, 26, James Witham, 41, and Joseph Peers, 28, had been charged with Ms Dale's homicide and are as a consequence of stand trial on 2 October.

At her funeral in September final yr, Ms Dale was described by her household as a "rising star" who "had her whole life ahead of her".

Ms Dale, an environmental well being officer for Knowsley Council, shouldn't be believed to have been the supposed goal of the capturing.