MEMBERS from scooter clubs across the region joined forces to take part in a remembrance rideout for Elle Edwards yesterday (Sunday, August 20).

Jan Rogers, originally from New Brighton, is part of a scooter club.

Fellow scooterists, Jan Armstrong, from Wallasey, and Nigel Turner, from Wales, worked with Jan to organise a rideout on Storm the Fort Day, with other scooter clubs including Birkenhead Cloud9, Bromborough Scooter Club and Liverpool Scooter Club.

The rideout was in memory of 26-year-old beautician, Elle Edwards, who was shot and killed outside the Lighthouse Pub in Wallasey on Christmas Eve.

Her murderer, Connor Chapman, 23, was jailed for a minimum of 48 years in July.

Speaking to the Globe about Elle, Jan said: "Elle was a friend of my daughter's. They went to school together. 

"I knew Elle when she was little, many times she was in our house. It was so shocking and if we were still living in New Brighton that could've well been one of my daughters so it really hit home for us."

Wirral Globe: Scooterists at the rideoutScooterists at the rideout (Image: Jan Rogers)

Jan created wreaths to be placed under the Elle Edwards mural on Virginia Road in New Brighton.

She added: "We asked Cloud9 if we could get the scooters to ride past the mural on their Storm the Fort Day, which was started in 2000.

"I didn't want to step on their toes because it's a big day, but Dave, who runs Cloud9, said it was fine."

Jan created stickers which were sold for £2 on the day, with all proceeds going to the Elle Edwards Foundation, a foundation set up by Elle's father, Tim Edwards.

Wirral Globe: Wreaths put down from Jan and the scooter clubsWreaths put down from Jan and the scooter clubs (Image: Jan Rogers)

Over 100 scooterists travelled down to take part in the ride from Wirral, Liverpool, North Wales, Denbyshire and Anglesey.

Jan said: "I spoke to Tim leading up to the event, but he couldn't make it as he is currently doing his charity walk.

"I liaised with Janet, who is Elle's auntie, and Elle's uncle, cousins and nan all came along.

"It was quite emotional to be fair. I kept tearing up, you could see it really emotionally got the family. 

"When we put the wreaths down, Elle's nan did a speech." 

Jan's scooter club was named after her friend which was involved in a fatal stabbing 16 years ago.

"With our friend dying of murder, it still upsets me now", Jan said.

"There's no preparation for it and when someone young is taken away it is really shocking so I think for us as well we've been through it."