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26-year-old Elle was fatally shot in the head by Connor Chapman while she was standing in the smoking area of the Lighthouse Pub in Wallasey on Christmas Eve last year. She was an innocent bystander who was out celebrating the festivities with her sister and friends. Chapman, of Houghton Road, Woodchurch, open fired 12 bullets from a Skorpian sub-machine gun just after 11.
50pm on December 24, 2022. Elle was caught in the crossfire of the “gang revenge shooting” and was shot twice in the back of the head while five other men were injured. During Chapman's trial, the court was the gunman had been targeting two other men – Kieran Salkeld and his friend Jake Duffy – because of a feud between rival gangs on the Woodchurch and Ford estates, which lie on either side of the M53 in Wirral.
In July 2023, Chapman was found guilty of murdering Elle Edwards after the jury deliberated for almost four hours. He was also found guilty of attempted murder, one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and possession of a gun and ammunition. Chapman was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 48 years.
While his accomplice Thomas Waring was jailed for nine years for helping Chapman burn out a stolen Mercedes used in the shooting. Following the trial, Elle's dad, Tim Edwards, set up The Elle Edwards Foundation. Tim vowed to "keep her name alive" by setting up the foundation in her memory to help other families affected by gun crime while raising awareness about anti-gun and knife crime across the world.
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