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A nan was gunned down on her own doorstep after her sons stole from drug dealers, a court has heard.

Mother-of-six and grandmother-of-five, Jackie Rutter, was 53 when she was fatally shot on her own doorstep in Meadowbrook Road, Moreton, Wirral. Her shooting followed claims her sons had "ripped off" or "taxed" drug dealers James Byrne and Preston Connolly.

Byrne is now standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with her murder, alongside Simon Allen, Barrie Glynn and David Harrison. A fifth defendant, Connolly's former girlfriend Anna McGinn, faces charges of assisting an offender in relation to the fatal shooting.

During the prosecution's opening yesterday (Wednesday 8), Nigel Power KC told a jury: "Nearly three years ago, now on the 30th of October 2022, a lady

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