Connor Chapman will tonight be sat in a cell on day one of his 48 year sentence for the reckless and senseless murder of Elle Edwards.
On Thursday July 6 he was convicted of the murder of Elle Edwards after spraying the front entrance of the Lighthouse Pub, Wallasey Village, with 12 bullets from a Skorpion sub-machine gun shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve last year.
A jury of seven women and five men reached unanimous verdicts after three hours and 48 minutes of deliberation. Nigel Power, KC, prosecuting, had told Liverpool Crown Court the astonishingly reckless attack was the "culmination" of a vicious tit-for-tat feud between gangs based around the Woodchurch estate, where Chapman lived, and the Ford/Beechwood estate, home to his intended targets Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy.
