Had Connor Chapman not just committed a crime so heinous and devastating, it would be laughable.
Only 10 minutes earlier, the masked gunman had opened fire outside the Lighthouse pub and killed Elle Edwards. Some eight-and-a-half miles away, he had made it to the sanctuary of Private Drive in Barnston and the home of his criminal ally Thomas Waring.
Perhaps thinking he was in the clear, Chapman pulled back the head covering he had used to disguise his distinctive long hair. And, as he revealed his identity, the Skorpion submachine gun used in the murder tumbled from his pocket into the street.
