A jury was shown CCTV footage of the moment a gunman sprayed the front of a busy pub with bullets from a military grade sub-machine gun, killing popular beautician Elle Edwards.
Elle was stood outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, smoking a cigarette, at 11.47pm on Christmas Eve last year when she was shot twice in the head by a killer who had loitered outside for three hours. Five other men were also wounded.
Connor Chapman, 23, is standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with the murder of the "wholly innocent" 26-year-old as well as the attempted murder of his intended targets, alleged rivals Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy, who survived their injuries. Chapman also faces three counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm against three other innocent bystanders hit by gunfire; Harry Loughran, Nicholas Speed and Liam Carr.
