‘Executed in the park’

A gunman executed a father-of-four with a bullet to the back of his head, a court heard. Dean Edwards, 43, was gunned down after an evening drinking at a pub in Penge, southeast London, on 11 July 2020. As he made his way through Betts Park he was blasted once in the back of the head by 26-year-old Taylor Purdy, it was claimed. Jurors heard Mr Edwards was ‘simply in the wrong place at the wrong time’ and could have…