Trial hears how nan was shot dead 'as revenge' in drug dispute

JACKIE, 53, WAS GUNNED DOWN 'AFTER SONS STOLE DEALERS' PHONE'

- By ADAM EVERETT

A GRANDMOTHER was shot dead in her own home after her sons stole a phone from two drug dealers, a court has heard.

Mum-of-six and grandmother-of-five Jackie Rutter died in October 2022, aged 53, after answering a knock at the door of her house on Meadowbrook Road in Moreton, Wirral, to be greeted by two gun wielding assailants who shot her in the chest.

Four men, Simon Allen, James Byrne, Barrie Glynn and David Harrison, have gone on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of her murder.

A fifth defendant, Anna McGinn, is charged with assisting an offender in connection with the fatal shooting.

Nigel Power KC told a jury of seven men and five women during the prosecution’s opening yesterday: “Nearly three years ago, on the 30th of October 2022, a lady called Jacqueline Rutter opened the front door to her home address.

She was shot in the chest with a gun, which either was or was similar to a Grand Power self-loading pistol, and she died at the scene.