The Skorpion sub-machine gun used in the murder of Elle Edwards was capable of emptying its magazine "before you could sneeze", a jury heard.
Liverpool Crown Court has heard a gunman used the Czech made military style weapon to fire 12 shots at the front of the Lighthouse Pub on Christmas Eve last year, killing the "wholly innocent" 26-year-old beautician as she sat perched on the edge of a flower bed. Five men were also wounded but survived their injuries.
Nigel Power, KC, prosecuting, has told the jury the Crown alleges that the killer's intended targets were two of those men - Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy. Connor Chapman, 23, is on trial accused of Elle's murder, the attempted murder of Salkeld and Duffy and wounding three other innocent bystanders with intent to cause GBH.
