Elle Edwards’s dad said his daughter’s killer was a “scumbag” without an “ounce of remorse” as he described the loss of his “best mate”.
Tim Edwards sat in silence through nearly four weeks of court proceedings, where he saw footage of the moment his daughter died time and time again. Elle, 26, was shot twice in the head, and five men were injured, outside the Lighthouse pub shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the gunman sprayed the front entrance with bullets from a Skorpion sub-machine gun as part of an escalating gang feud. Today the jury of seven women and five men unanimously concluded that Chapman, 23, was guilty of Elle’s murder and attempting to murder two of the men also hit, Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy, after three hours and 48 minutes of deliberations.
