Elle Edwards dad recollects watching CCTV of her homicide as ‘I’ll by no means unsee it’
Elle Edwards’ heartbroken father has recalled the expertise of watching the CCTV of his daughter’s homicide, describing it as an expertise he’ll “never unsee”.
Tim Edwards, 52, spoke frankly and brazenly of the trauma he acquired from figuring out his daughter, Elle, who was gunned down exterior a Merseyside pub on December 24 final 12 months.
Mr Edwards is now set to face his second Christmas Day with out Elle, 26, and believes kids in Liverpool are being “groomed into gangs”. He aired his considerations when talking to The Mirror about how his grandson’s pals may very well be armed with weapons sooner or later.
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Connor Chapman, 23, attended the pub Elle and her sister Lucy, 22, had been having fun with a drink at, armed with a Skorpion submachine gun. He had been ready for 3 hours on the pub for focused duo Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy.
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Elle was sadly shot and killed by the assassin, who approached from the automotive park earlier than spraying 12 photographs into the gang. Tim mentioned: “I had to watch the CCTV of her getting shot before the trial. I’ll never unsee it. Elle was sat on the wall having a fag with her back to that piece of s***.
“The targets he was aiming at had been standing in entrance of Elle and he simply sprayed at them. Another six inches up or to the aspect and he or she’d nonetheless be alive.” Mr Edwards has since warned of future gang-related crimes and shootings in Merseyside.
He added: “It’s terrifying to listen to youngsters this younger are being groomed, nevertheless it’s changing into increasingly more frequent. My grandson is 4 now. In just a few years considered one of his pals may very well be considered one of these youngsters. The kids being groomed into gangs now would be the ones utilizing weapons sooner or later.”
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The horror CCTV footage got here simply a short time after his son, Connor, 30, knowledgeable his father of the tragic information on Christmas morning. Tim rushed to the hospital the place he was knowledgeable Elle had died after a gunshot wound to the top.
“When we got to Arrowe Park Hospital the surgeon said to me she’d passed away. He said she’d been shot in the head,” he mentioned. “They put us in a side room at the hospital and I just went ballistic. I smashed the wall up.”
Chapman was convicted of homicide at Liverpool Crown Court and jailed for no less than 48 years. A GoFundMe has since been arrange for charity work regarding Elle Edwards.
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