“In my personal opinion he’s got more than enough reason to tell the prosecution what they want to hear.”Ĭhapman is alleged to have targeted Jake Duffy and Kieran Salkeld on the night of the murder in the culmination of a feud between groups on the Woodchurch estate and Beechwood estate, on either side of the M53 in Wirral. He said: “I wouldn’t really know why Tom would say that. “I wasn’t prepared to let them take everything I’ve gained in the past 12 months.”Ĭhapman was asked why co-defendant Thomas Waring had suggested, through his barrister, that Chapman went to his house following the shooting. “As far as I was concerned police were going to seize everything off me,” he said. He said he told the woman he had been kicked out of his house and asked her to keep hold of the bag. I went back to the house and got all my stuff from my house.”

The defendant told the jury: “It was definitely in January. He refused to name the woman, until he was told reporting restrictions would prevent her identity being revealed. He said: “The prosecution know what happened to my trainers.”Ĭhapman said he had put all his clothes in a “Christmas rucksack” and took them to the house of a woman who lives nearby. Under cross-examination at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, Chapman was asked where the trainers he was seen wearing the day before the murder were now.

The man accused of murdering Elle Edwards outside a pub on Christmas Eve took all his clothes to a woman’s house after discovering he was wanted for the murder, he has told a court.Ĭonnor Chapman, 23, allegedly murdered Elle Edwards, 26, by opening fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun outside the Lighthouse in Wallasey Village, Wirral, Merseyside, just before midnight on December 24 last year. Elle Edwards (PA) Connor Chapman denies murdering Elle Edwards outside a pub in Wirral last Christmas Eve.

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