The father of Elle Edwards had shared the heartbreaking message from his daughter after their last ever night out together.
Beautician Elle was shot and killed outside a pub in the Wirral on Christmas Eve last year in what was described as a "human tragedy in its purest and most appalling sense".
Tim Edwards told a new BBC documentary Killed On Christmas Eve that he, his daughter Lucy and Elle arranged a trip to Manchester’s Christmas markets.
In footage taken by Elle, Tim can be seen listening to their favourite song together, Landslide by Fleetwood Mac, on the sofa in his flat.
Their shared love of Fleetwood Mac led to Tim wearing a t-shirt of the band at a Merseyside Police press conference held in a bid for people to come forward to help catch her killers in the wake of her death.
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Tim Edwards has set up a foundation in his daughter's aimed at combatting Merseyside gun violence (Alex McCartney / BBC Breakfast)The Liverpool Echo reported she said: “Dad, 2023 baby, here we come.”
Tim said they “had a ball” on their final night out together in Manchester in the days leading up to Christmas.
Elle and Lucy had returned home early from a trip to Dubai to surprise their family during the holidays
Killer Connor Chapman, 23, earned a minimum of 48 years behind bars for the crime and now Tim says he hopes something positive can come from his daughter's untimely passing.
Elle Edwards was positive about the future, but she never got to see it (PA)After setting up a foundation in her name, he said: "It has to. And it leaves a legacy then in her name so we can hopefully help people who need it, which is what it’s about.
"She won’t be forgotten then, and that’s what’s important to me, that she’s never forgotten. So if that’s one way we can do it then we’ll do it.”
Elle's death was described as a “human tragedy in its purest and most appalling sense” during Chapman's trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
Chapman was sentenced to a minimum of 48 years in jail (PA)Tim was seen punching the air when "scumbag" Chapman's verdict was read out.
There were gasps in the courtroom as Mr Justice Goose handed the 23-year-old with the lengthy sentence, as he added: "You didn’t care who else would be killed. That’s why you fired all the bullets at the group. I’m satisfied you are a highly dangerous man."
Chapman killed Elle when he opened fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Merseyside.
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The court heard Chapman was slapped with an injunction in the months prior to the shooting, aimed at preventing gang-related violence.
The Lighthouse Inn (Liverpool Echo)In his closing speech last earlier this month, Nigel Power KC, prosecuting, told the jury: “This is a trial that not just you 12 but many, many people will never forget. It involves human tragedy in its purest and most appalling sense.
“Gun crime often includes criminals shooting at each other, there’s no doubt that this is such an event, but of course here a young, beautiful, unconnected, innocent life was brutally ended as a direct result of the then ongoing, but for now at least paused, gun feud between the Ford estate on Wirral on the one hand and the Woodchurch estate on the other hand.”
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