For the past three and a half weeks the family of Elle Edwards were forced to listen to the lies, obstructions and brazenly criminal attitude of her killer Connor Chapman.
As his lawyers did their best to mount a defence to a stack of overwhelming evidence, the story of the beautiful, popular and kind young women could not be fully told.
But, with Chapman cast out of society for at least nearly half a century, the time came to remember the woman whose life was senselessly, recklessly snatched away. Elle died enjoying herself, chatting outside the Lighthouse Pub in Wallasey Village on Christmas Eve.
