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A shocking video has captured the moment two gang members viciously attacked a cyclist on a residential street — sparking a horrific chain of events that led to Elle Edwards' murder.

The footage shows Ford gang thugs Kieran Salkeld, 28, and Jake Duffy, 22, cornering victim Sam Searson, an associate of Chapman, in the front yard of a property on Highfield Road, Rock Ferry, in Wirral, on December 23.

Salkeld and Duffy were recorded kicking, punching and stamping on helpless Searson for around a minute, while a woman on the opposite side of the road shouts "get off him" and "there's kids here".

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Salkeld can be heard shouting to the screaming witness: "Mind your own business alright? Mind your own business, he's a little ken [home] robber."

The Liverpool Echo reports that Searson then murmurs: "I don't rob kens lad".

Duffy can be heard saying "you know what you done you little ming" while Salkeld replies: "Don't chat s*** lad", as the pair continue to punch and kick him.

Harrowing audio footage from the clip, which was played in Liverpool Crown Court where Connor Chapman was convicted of Elle's murder, captured one of the men shouting: "Leave it lad you're going to get nicked."

Salkeld replies "You think I give a s*** about getting nicked?"

In a second clip, shown in court, Salkeld or Duffy can be heard to say: "You're lucky I didn't have a blade lad, you'd have got chopped up."

The attack was the final trigger leading to the fatal shooting of 26-year-old beautician and dental nurse Elle Edwards at the Lighthouse Pub in Wallasey Village on December 24.

Her killer, Chapman, was a prominent member of the Woodchurch estate organised crime group which had been engaged in a bloody feud with a rival firm, based around the Ford/Beechwood estate.

Chapman was handed three life sentences with an overall minimum term of 48 years in prison at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday (July 7), having been found guilty of Elle's murder the previous day.

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Trial judge Mr Justice Goose, passing sentence on Friday (July 7), said: "On December 23 last year, one of your associates [Searson] was attacked by Jake Duffy and Kieran Salkeld in the street.

"They were part of the Ford Estate gang. When you learned of that you decided on revenge, in the premeditated and carefully planned murder of Jake Duffy and Kieran Salkeld."

The jury had been told Salkeld and Duffy, once they recovered from their bullet wounds, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and affray over the beating of Searson.

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