Overview

• Four men—Simon Allen, James Byrne, Barrie Glynn and David Harrison—are on trial for murder and related offences, with a fifth defendant, Anna McGinn, charged with assisting an offender.
• The prosecution says the 53-year-old was targeted in revenge after her sons took a phone used to run a local drugs operation.
• CCTV evidence is said to show three men arriving in a stolen black Vauxhall Insignia, two approaching the door before shots were fired, then rejoining the car and meeting a fourth man nearby.
• Prosecutors allege Byrne and Preston Connolly carried out the shooting, Glynn drove the Insignia, Allen and Harrison assisted, Allen set the Insignia alight within minutes, and McGinn later gave the suspects lifts.
• The weapon was described as a Grand Power self-loading pistol or similar, one shot missing and another passing through Mrs Rutter’s hand into her chest; all defendants have pleaded not guilty, the case is before Mr Justice Goose and is expected to last six to eight weeks.