Connor Chapman posted a Facebook status calling for people to stop using guns four days after he murdered Elle Edwards in a cowardly attempt to cover his tracks.
The convicted drug dealer, 23, was found guilty last week of murdering Elle in a botched gangland shooting on Christmas Eve last year. Elle, 26, had been enjoying a night out with her sister and friends when she was hit twice in the back of the head outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village.
Five men were also injured, one critically, but all survived. A jury of seven women and five men came to a unanimous decision after three hours and 48 minutes of deliberation, following a three-and-a-half week trial at Liverpool Crown Court. Chapman’s friend Thomas Waring, 20, was convicted of possession of a prohibited weapon, and also assisting an offender by helping Chapman torch the stolen black Mercedes car used to flee the scene.
