in the middle of august, a summers evening, a saturday evening and ashley dale was a 28—year—old in remict night, sitting on the sofa with her dog. she heard noises outside, and realised what was going on and was slightly concerned and then the front door of her house was literally kicked in. the central panel of the pvc doorjust literally kicked in. the central panel of the pvc door just fell to the floor and a man a masked man ran in and started firing the she dived to try and get out of the house and go into the back yard but, as she did, she was hit by a bullet. the gunman then went upstairs after shooting her shot more bullets into the wall in the bedroom before leaping, jumping in the car that was driven by one of the other men convicted and sent to prison, and they made off. they were all rested fairly shortly afterwards from a combination of reasons. he had left fingerprints on one of the bullets that will suit in the attack and there was all sorts of forensic evidence that links them. today, they were convicted on monday, but today we got to the sentencing hearing. the ministry o