This is the face of the man accused of shooting dead a woman outside a pub on Christmas Eve.
Connor Chapman, 23, is standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with the murder of 26-year-old beautician Elle Edwards outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral, Merseyside, on December 24 last year.
Opening the trial at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday, Nigel Power KC, prosecuting, said Ms Edwards was on a night out with friends when she went out for a cigarette and stood with a group of people.
Footage played to the court exhibited a man walking round the corner from the car park of the pub and opening fire, injuring five people and killing Ms Edwards.
The court heard that the suspect was using a Skorpion sub-machine gun, a Czech firearm designed for the security services and the army.
Chapman, of Houghton Road in Woodchurch, is also accused of the attempted murder of Jake Duffy and Kieran Salkeld, and three include wounding with a purpose to do grievous bodily harm to Harry Loughran, Nicholas Speed and Liam Carr.
Mr Power said the intended targets of the shooting were Mr Duffy and Mr Salkeld.
He told the jury the shooting followed a “history of trouble” between rival groups from the Woodchurch and Ford estates on either side of the M53 in Wirral.
He outlined a series of events, including injunctions preventing Chapman from associating with named individuals, including Mr Duffy and Mr Salkeld, and a burglary in November and two shootings in December.
The day before the shooting, the court heard that on December 23, Mr Duffy and Mr Salkeld, from the Ford estate, assaulted Sam Searson from the Woodchurch estate.
A court had heard that an innocent woman was killed when a gunman fired 12 shots outside a pub on Christmas Eve, culminating in a feud between rival groups.
The family of Elle Edwards, 26, watched in court on Tuesday as graphic CCTV footage was played showing the moment the gunman fired the Skorpion sub-machine gun at a group of people outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral, Merseyside, shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve last year.
Connor Chapman, 23, is accused of murder following a “history of trouble” between rival groups in the Woodchurch estate and the Ford estate, located on opposite sides of the M53 motorway in Wirral.
Opening the trial at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday, Nigel Power KC, prosecuting, said the intended targets of the shooting were Jake Duffy and Kieran Salkeld.
He added: “Although they were injured, Elle Edwards, a wholly innocent bystander, was killed by two bullets which entered the back of the left side of her head.”
CCTV showed the gunman, who drove a stolen Mercedes A Class car to and from the scene, waiting in the area for three hours before opening fire, killing Ms Edwards, who could be seen collapsing on top of Mr Salkeld.
The court heard that three other bystanders, Harry Loughran, Liam Carr and Nicholas Speed, were injured as the attacker fired 12 shots from the weapon, which has never been recovered.
Mr Power told the jury that after the shooting, Chapman drove to the home of his friend and co-defendant Thomas Waring, 20, in Barnston, Wirral.
The jury heard a series of events in the run-up to Ms Edwards’s murder, such as injunctions preventing Chapman from associating with named individuals, including Mr Duffy and Mr Salkeld, and a burglary in November and two shootings in December.
The day before the shooting, on December 23, the court was told that Mr Duffy and Mr Salkeld, from the Ford estate, assaulted Sam Searson from the Woodchurch estate.
A court has heard a “wholly innocent” woman who was allegedly shot dead with a sub-machine gun outside a pub on Christmas Eve was the culmination of an “ongoing feud” between rival groups from two estates.
Connor Chapman, 23, is on trial for the murder of Elle Edwards, 26, who was killed in a shooting outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral, Merseyside, on December 24 last year. As well as murder, Chapman was charged with two counts of the attempted killing of Jake Duffy and Kieran Salkeld and three total of unlawful and malicious hurt with intent to do grievous bodily harm of Harry Loughran, Nicholas Speed and Liam Carr.
