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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jonathan Humphries & Adam Everett

Connor Chapman says friend 'contradicted' his defence 'to get lenient sentence' in Elle Edwards trial

The man accused of killing Elle Edwards suggested his co-defendant contradicted his account of where he was on the night of the murder "to get a lenient sentence".

Connor Chapman is on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of firing 12 shots at a group in front of the Lighthouse Pub, Wallasey Village, shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve last year.

"Wholly innocent" Elle, 26, was struck twice in the head by bullets from a Skorpion sub-machine gun. Five men, including alleged "intended targets" Kieron Salkeld and Jake Duffy, were also injured.

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