A gunman who killed a beautician when he opened fire with a sub-machine gun outside a pub on Christmas Eve was branded a "coward" by her father as he was convicted of murder.Elle Edwards, 26, was killed when Connor Chapman, 23, fired 12 shots from the Skorpion pistol into a group of people outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral, Merseyside, shortly before midnight on December 24 last year.Chapman was convicted of her murder, and seven other counts, following a three-and-a-half-we

A gunman who killed a beautician when he opened fire with a sub-machine gun outside a pub on Christmas Eve was branded a "coward" by her father as he was convicted of murder.Elle Edwards, 26, was killed when Connor Chapman, 23, fired 12 shots from the Skorpion pistol into a group of people outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral, Merseyside, shortly before midnight on December 24 last year.Chapman was convicted of her murder, and seven other counts, following a three-and-a-half-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court.