Elle Edwards murder documentary - Part 2: “Chapman has shown no remorse for his actions” - video Dailymotion

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Elle Edwards was enjoying a night out on Christmas Eve when her life was cruelly cut short when Connor Chapman indiscriminately fired a machine gun at the entrance to a pub in Wallasey. An innocent bystander, the murder of Elle has devastated a community and left her family and friends distraught.

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00:00 So my advice to you is to put that gun and that knife down, don't even think about picking

00:06 it up.

00:07 Ellie Edwards was by all accounts a beautiful, kind, happy 26-year-old who was enjoying the

00:13 Christmas festivities when her life was callously cut short.

00:18 Ellie was out with friends at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey on Christmas Eve.

00:22 Her brother Connor said she'd been there the previous year and had such a good time that

00:28 she wanted to return.

00:30 Ellie was socialising with a group outside the pub's entrance and amongst that group

00:35 were Kieran Solkeld and Jake Duffy, who were the intended targets of the shooting.

00:41 Connor Chapman was involved in an ongoing series of disputes between two rival gangs

00:46 from the Woodchurch estate, which Chapman was associated with, and Ford Estate on Wirral.

00:53 Before the shooting, Connor Chapman was driving a stolen Mercedes with false number plates

00:58 and he was parked in the pub car park for almost an hour.

01:02 At 11.52pm he got out of the vehicle and walked along the side of the building where he then

01:08 opened fire at the group using a Scorpion sub-machine gun.

01:13 You pick that gun up or that knife and leave your house or wherever you are and you go

01:19 out into the street and you have that gun or that knife in your pocket, your life is

01:24 over.

01:25 It's over.

01:26 It's as simple as that.

01:28 Because you pull that trigger or put that knife into someone and you kill them, you

01:33 have ended one, your own life.

01:35 You've ended the life of the person in front of you who's the victim.

01:39 You've ended the life of their family.

01:42 You've ended the life of your family.

01:46 And the effect that that has on the whole community in a wider circle just keeps going.

01:54 And there's nothing good going to come out of it.

01:56 Following the shooting, Chapman drove to his friend Thomas Waring's home where he disposed

02:02 of the gun which has still not been uncovered.

02:05 Six days after the shooting, the stolen Mercedes was burnt out in a remote area of Frodsham.

02:10 After hearing police wanted to question him over a serious matter, Connor Chapman fled

02:15 to North Wales.

02:16 Seventeen days after carrying out the attack, Chapman was arrested at a Tesco in an operation

02:22 involving plainclothes officers.

02:26 Connor Chapman has shown no remorse for his actions at all from the time of the murder.

02:31 And this is shown when he fled to Wales having been asked to hand himself into police, during

02:36 his interviews and even during trial.

02:40 He deprived a young woman of a future and in the words of her father, just as her life

02:45 was cut short, she was reaching the peak and was the happiest that he had ever seen her.

02:49 During the investigation, detectives trolled through more than 1,400 hours of CCTV evidence.

02:54 Over 300 sets of communication data were applied for and reviewed.

02:58 Thirty-seven searches were carried out and 30 crime scenes were examined.

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Elle Edwards murder documentary - Part 2: “Chapman has shown no remorse for his actions”

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