elle edwards was enjoying a night out at the lighthouse in wallasey, when she was shot ten minutes before midnight on christmas eve. the 26 year old beautician had been standing outside the pub when shots were fired towards the doorway. detectives said at the time they did not believe she was intended target of the attack, which also injured four other people. 0vernight, merseyside police charged 22 year old connor chapman, from nearby woodchurch, with elle s s murder, and two counts of attempted murder, and three counts of unlawful and malicious wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. he was also charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life, and handling a stolen mercedes. he will appear before wirral adult remand court this morning. a 23 year old woman, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, has been released on bail pending further inquiries. and merseyside police is continuing to appeal for witnesses and informatio
key to this was this attempt to destroy the evidence, just tell us more about the evidence. essentially, the car that was used, a stolen mercedes, i believe, that was used, that chapman together with thomas waring drove off and then set light to it, it was found burnt out by the m 56 some miles away, that was a key part of the evidence clearly, the weapon has never been found, so we don t know where that is, but attempts to destroy other evidence such as clothes etc. these are all key things that people who are all key things that people who are planning an attack will do, will think about, what will happen afterwards, and we can see in this case that this was not a spontaneous
you prepared to fire all 12 bullets at close range at six of them. your intention was to murderjake duffy and ciaran sulk out. but you did not care who else would be killed. that is why you fired all of the bullets at the group. i am satisfied that you are a highly dangerous man. in this trial, we have all watched the cctv and sound recording of that shooting. it is utterly shocking. you carefully planned a revenge attack in gang reverie. you had no fault at all for anyone else, least of all to innocent people gang of ivory. the risk of all 16 murdered by you was as substantial as it was obvious. but he did not care. after the shooting, you drove straight to the shooting, you drove straight to the home of your friend thomas waring where you believed you could safely hide the stolen mercedes car