Killer gets 45 years for prison officer ‘execution’
A Gangland “Executioner”, waiting for four years from a prison officer to get a phone from his cell, was sentenced to at least 45 years in prison for his murder.
Armed robber Elias Morgan shot Lenny Scott three times except for a gym in Skelmersdale on February 8, 2024.
Researchers at HMP Altcourse in Liverpool planned to kill after discovering evidence that Morgan had sexual intercourse with a female officer named Sarah Williams after the phone was found in March 2020.
Police said Mr. Scott was “assassinated” by Morgan, who was described as a cold -blooded executioner that takes a man’s life while doing his job.
Det Ch Insp Lee Wilson said Mr. Scott was “a great man of integrity and courage that does the right one and unfortunately pays the final price.”
Lenny Scott was the father of twin men and a little boy [Lancashire Police]
Judge Adalet Goose, who condemned Morgan to a life period, said that the murder was pleased that Mr. Scott was “revenge killing” for what he did as a prison officer “.
“The murder caused deep sorrow to the family, young children and everyone who knew him.” He said.
“He was 33 years old in most of his life.
“He was loved, respected and made them proud.”
Morgan quietly listened to the Preston Crown Court after telling his lawyer to call him “nothing.”
Kc Caroline Goodwin, who represented him, said to the court: “My very solid instructions, reduction, no application, and no representation to the court.”
Neil and Paula Scott took weeks to watch the murder hearing in Preston Crown Court [BBC]
He heard the hearing When Morgan was found to Mr. Scott, he offered £ 1,500 as a bribe for “losing”.
When he refused, Morgan made a series of threats that “terrified”, including Mr. Scott, including correctly defining his address.
Mr. Scott told his father Neil Scott to Morgan’s: “I will bend my time, but I promise” before making gun gestures with his fingers.
During the prisoner hearing, Mr. Paula Scott’s mother Paula Scott spoke with Morgan while making a direct statement.
He said to him: “My son was everything you weren’t. It was strong, brave, honest, respectful, hardworking, gentle and principled. He stopped for the right thing.
“You are a violent, inhuman coward. I’m injured, I’m angry and I will never forgive you.”
The court also received news from Lucy Griffiths, the mother of former partner of Mr. Scott and the mother of twin boys.
At that time, six told the pain of the death of their father and the pain of telling the struggles that followed him.
Speaking behind a screen, he said: “He asked him to return the letters hidden under his pillows to return. It is very sad to find it as a mother.
“They saw nightmares about men who chased them with guns because of what happened.”
During the shooting, Mr. Scott has been out of the prison service since 2021, and was removed from an incident with the restriction of a prisoner who had nothing to do with this case.
Morgan was released in 2022, but he was waiting for the trial for crimes due to the discovery of the phone, seeing his ex -lover Williams was imprisoned for abuse in a public office.
The hearing was expected to take place 11 days later.
Morgan, whose previous convictions role in a bank robbery of an £ 83,000 in which the personnel were threatened with machete, waited 53 minutes of the gym at Peel Road to leave Mr. Scott from the Jiu-Jitsu training session.
The detectives found that the prison officer trained in the Liverpool suburb of Speke’s house in Merseyside, Merseyside, and Speke had spent weeks to cover the addresses related to Mr. Scott, including another gym.
The moment Mr. Scott was ambushed, he had tears in court for playing CCTV.
Wearing a high -visible jacket, Morgan can be seen approaching walking on foot before raising a self -loading pistol and six times shooting.
Mr. Scott collapsed from the frame and died at the scene.
The police were described as a murderer after realizing that the armed man was closely close to the scene in Skelmersdale in a Mercedes registered to his mother.
Later, the 29 -year -old close friend Anthony Cleary walked to a minibus nearby the previous evening.
Behind the minibus, there was an electric bike, he used Morgan because he got on the shooting scene before he returned and used the minibus to escape from Skelmersdale.
The detectives turned and took Mercedes back to Liverpool a few days later.
Mr. Cleary was accused of the murder of Mr. Scott, but he was acquitted after saying that he had no idea that the jury would be used in a shot.
Anthony Cleary (left) opened Elias Morgan during their hearings and said that his friend called him and confessed to shooting someone [Lancashire Police]
During the shooting, Morgan claimed that he was “a man about a dog about a dog in Liverpool.
However, Mr. Cleary opened his friend in court and called the jury Morgan to tell him that he had “did someone in Skem” that night and that he had escaped his phone.
After Morgan’s conviction, the chief of union, Mark Fairhurst, told the President of the Prison Officer BBC that the murder of “unprecedented” was damaged.
“It certainly shows how risky and insecure it is,” he said.
The prisons described Morgan’s crime as “really shocking” after Lord James Timpson, the Minister of Freedom and Reduction of Freedom and Restructuring.
“We know that this hearing is deeply sad for many and we are determined to get our brave prison officials to get the support they need.” He said.
He continued: “We will always work with the police to follow the most challenging penalties for those who want to protect the staff and harm them.”
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