The murder of a 26-year-old woman outside a pub on Christmas Eve involved “human tragedy in its purest and most appalling sense”, the trial of the alleged gunman has heard.
Connor Chapman, 23, is accused of killing Elle Edwards and injuring five men by opening fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral, Merseyside, shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve.
In his closing speech at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday, Nigel Power KC, prosecuting, told the jury: “This is a trial that not just you 12 but many, many people will never forget.
