The jury has been sent out to begin their deliberations in the trial of Connor Chapman.
Closing speeches have been delivered and trial judge Mr Justice Goose completed his summary of the evidence at Liverpool Crown Court, where the 23-year-old is in the fourth week of his trial where he is charged with the murder of Elle Edwards.
The 26-year-old beautician was killed on Christmas Eve, when a gunman fired 12 shots from a Skorpion sub-machine gun at a group of people stood by the front entrance of the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village. Five men; Kieran Salkeld, Jake Duffy, Liam Carr, Nicholas Speed and Harry Loughran, were also injured during the shooting.
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Today, at 11.07am, the seven women and five men of the jury were asked to retire and begin their deliberations.
Over the last four weeks, the jury have heard the killer drove to Wallasey Village in a stolen black Mercedes A-Class car and loitered outside the pub for around three hours before opening fire. The prosecution alleges that Chapman, from Houghton Road in Woodchurch, was the gunman and was intending to kill two of the men injured in the shooting - Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy - both from the Beechwood area.
Chapman denies Elle's murder and the attempted murder of Salkeld and Duffy. He also denies wounding with intent to cause GBH to Harry Loughran and Liam Carr, and assaulting Nicholas Speed causing actual bodily harm. He also denies possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
He has pleaded guilty to one count of handling stolen goods in relation to the Mercedes. The court heard he accepts he had access to the car for around three months before Elle's death, but says others also had access to it and claims it was borrowed by someone else on the night of the murder.
Thomas Waring, 20, of Private Drive in Barnston, denies assisting an offender by helping to burn out the car, and possession of a prohibited weapon.
