As rain began to fall on the streets of Wallasey today, another coffin carrying another murdered young woman was carried into church for another painful funeral.
Elle Edwards was just 26 when the mind boggling recklessness of a gunman, who sprayed the front of a busy pub with bullets, snatched her bright future away. And, in the words of her dad, Tim Edwards, "it was all for nothing".
Today Mr Edwards appeared dignified and stoic as he greeted and embraced friends and relatives outside St Nicholas Church in Wallasey. No doubt he was making every effort to hold it together for his family. But who can bear to imagine the depths of despair he must have felt as he shouldered his daughter's coffin.
