The gunman who shot and killed an innocent bystander in a botched gangland attack has been found guilty
On Christmas Eve last year Ellie Edwards, was killed in a submachine gun shooting outside a pub on the Wirral
The Beautician, 26, was shot when Connor Chapman, 23, fired a Skorpion pistol into a group of people outside the Lighthouse Pub in Wallasey
The court heard how Chapman waited outside a pub for three hours on Christmas Eve before killing a beautician with a sub-machinegun in a botched gang hit.
The attack was the culmination of a feud between groups on the Woodchurch and Beechwood estates, on either side of the M53 in the Wirral.
Tim Edwards, Miss Edwards’s father, said the conviction meant the family could start moving on from her death.
He said: “It just means he’s off the streets, someone else is not going to suffer at the hands of him.
“Unfortunately Elle was his last victim but thankfully she will be the last person he does anything to and he can go fade away.”
Detective Superintendent Paul Grounds said: “He has continued to deny his guilt throughout the trial but the jury has seen through his lies and righty convicted him.”
