Connor Chapman booked a weekend away with "the romance of prosecco and petals" after police called him and urged him to hand himself in, his trial was told.
Police raided the home of Chapman's grandparents in Woodchuch on New Year's Day, eight days after Elle Edwards was shot dead outside the Lighthouse Inn pub in Wallasey Village. Chapman, who stands accused of murdering the 26-year-old beautician in a botched assassination attempt of two rivals, was not at the address.
However, his grandad, Dave McLellan, phoned him and he was urged by a sergeant to give himself up. Prosecutor Nigel Power said: "He didn’t, and he never used that phone again."
