Not even Christmas Eve was spared the shock and misery of gun crime.
Merseyside once again woke up to the astonishing, heartrending news that a young person had been killed at the hands of a reckless killer targeting someone else. Popular beautician Elle Edwards, just 26-years-old, became the latest to lose their life in a horror final third of 2022 as she was shot in the head at the Lighthouse Inn, in Wallasey Village.
Elle's family, like the families of Sam Rimmer, Ashley Dale, OIivia Pratt-Korbel and Jackie Rutter, was left to pick up the pieces. Of those victims, only Jackie was older than 28, and all had many years of life, love and potential happiness snatched away due to motives described by Chief Constable Serena Kennedy as "pathetic and petty" gangland disputes.
