The prosecution case against the man accused of murdering Elle Edwards has 'significantly changed' mid-way through the trial after a CCTV footage revelation
The prosecution case against the man accused of murdering Elle Edwards has 'significantly changed' mid-way through the trial after a CCTV footage revelation.
Nigel Power, KC, prosecuting, said that Elle was a "wholly innocent victim" caught up in a violent feud between criminal groups based around the Woodchurch estate, where Chapman lived, and the Beechwood/Ford estate, where Salkeld and Duffy lived. Speaking at the trial today, Detective Sergeant Peter Cietak, of Merseyside Police's Major Crimes Unit, said police had seized around 1,400 hours of CCTV footage as part of the investigation into Elle's murder.
However, Chapman's legal team argued that the figure captured at 8.44pm had actually walked from further up Houghton Road, passing Chapman's home address from right to left, rather than exiting from the property. Mark Rhind, KC, defending Chapman, described this as a "significant change" in the prosecution case. Questioning DS Cietak, he said: "Six months after the offence, five and a half months after Connor Chapman’s arrest, a long time after the footage was reviewed and two weeks into the trial, it may be the prosecution were wrong all along?”
DS Cietak replied: “It is a key piece of footage and clearly that had not featured in the schedule prepared. If one sighting of a black mark had been seen we wanted to be sure we’ve not spotted any others." DS Cietak responded: "No, not really. In analysing everything again, we looked at the entire period of footage from when Connor Chapman returns from Manchester to the point the figure walks around the back gets in the car and goes off. I looked specifically at that bright window and the other lights in the vicinity.
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