The man accused of spraying bullets at a busy pub killing Elle Edwards claimed the real killer was a friend who bought cocaine from his house, and said he was at home watching YouTube at the time.
Connor Chapman, 23, is on trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with the murder of the 26-year-old beautician, who was shot twice in the head as she stood outside the Lighthouse Inn pub in Wallasey Village, on Christmas Eve last year. "Wholly innocent" Elle was smoking a cigarette at the front entrance of the busy pub when the killer, who had been lurking outside for around three hours, fired 12 rounds from a military style Skorpion sub-machine gun at 11.47pm.
Nigel Power, KC, prosecuting, told the jury the gunman was intending to kill two men stood near Elle, rival criminals Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy, who suffered serious injuries but survived. The volley of shots also wounded three other innocent bystanders; Harry Loughran, Liam Carr and Nicholas Speed.
