Machine gun killers fail in bid to unmask anonymous witness

The killers of two teenage girls gunned down 15 years ago have lost their legal bid to name a gang member who was granted life-long anonymity at their trial. Charlene Ellis, 18, and Letisha Shakespeare, 17, were shot dead with machine guns in a gangland attack in Birchfield Road, Aston, Birmingham, on January 2, 2003. Burger Bar Boys members Rodrigo Simms, 33, and Marcus Ellis, 37, and two other men are serving life sentences for the murders. Ellis was ordered…