News about John Cullen

Elle (left), 26, of New Brighton, Merseyside, was shot twice in the back of the head eight minutes before midnight on Christmas Eve last year, when she sat on a planter box after 'having the misfortune' to leave the pub she was in for a cigarette. The self-loading machine pistol (right) was shown in full automatic mode today, and in one-and-a-half seconds, according to a forensic firearms expert. However, the gunman who opened the fire outside The Lighthouse Pub in Wallasey on Christmas Eve fired 12 single shots, including a burst of seven, followed by three others. The court heard that the shots were fired from a distance as close as two-and-a-half meters from the crowd. According to the allegations, the gunman was Connor Chapman (inset) who wanted to murder rival gang members Jake Duffy, 22, and Kieran Salkeld 28. Elle is innocent, on two counts of the attempted murder of Duffy and Salkeld and three others with the intention of hurting someone outside the bar. He denies ever owning and carrying a pistol and ammo with the intention of ending anger's life.