The state of play in Wirral's underworld was already highly volatile when two gang members launched a vicious ambush on a man cycling down a residential street.
That attack, on December 23 last year, was the final trigger leading to the horrific shooting at the Lighthouse Pub in Wallasey Village the following day, which claimed the life of 26-year-old beautician and dental nurse Elle Edwards.
Her killer, Connor Chapman, was a prominent member of the Woodchurch estate organised crime group which had been engaged in a bloody feud with a rival firm, based around the Ford/Beechwood estate.
