Prison service rocked by colleague’s revenge murder

According to a union chief, the carefully planned murder of a former prison officer “horrified” and damaged morale “was horrified.

In February 2024, 33 -year -old Lenny Scott was killed by the drug dealer Elias Morgan four years after a female officer in HMP Altcourse in Liverpool in Liverpool in February 2024.

Attacks on Personnel in the UK Prisons reached a new summit With 10,568 attacks in the last 12 months in March of this year.

However, according to Mark Fairhurst, President of the Prison Officer Association (POA) Association, the murder of an old officer outside the workplace was greeted with “shock and fear throughout the whole profession”.

“We are all exposed to threats because of the risks we encounter both in the workplace and when we socialize.” He said.

“But for this to happen, three years after someone quit his wife was not seen.”

According to the detectives at the Lancashire police, Mr. Scott was a physically imposing man for Jiu-Jitsu and Strongman Sports, so he was usually a civil servant if there was a problem in the category prison.

However, in the case of rehabilitation of prisoners, prisoners were defined as a “Renaissance Man” who wanted to help use exercises to help them cope with addiction or mental health problems.

According to his family, in March 2020, he seized an iPhone from his cell containing the details of the relationship with the prison officer Sarah Williams, after Morgan was disappointed about his career on his anger.

A nine -week trial at the Preston Crown Court realized that Mr. Scott was threatened after rejecting the cash bribe of £ 1,500 to “lose” phone, and that Morgan’s address and his partner and his children were threatened.

Mr. Scott said that their parents Neil and Paula Scott believed that Altcourse executives did not take these threats seriously.

In court, a statement from Paula explained how his son thought that Morgan thought he had taken these details from the female prison officer, but there was no evidence to prove it.

During the hearing, the jury said that prison intelligence diaries have a threatening “serious violence” history to force Morgan’s prisoners and prison staff until 2011.

Diaries, Morgan’s threats on behalf of him “various weapons” to realize “people in the community” said he would contact.

On February 8, 2024, one month after removing Mr. Scott’s house and two gyms he trained, his victim ambushed his victim outside a gym in Peel Road in Skelmersdale, Skelmersdale.

Mr. Scott was shot six times, including the head, and when the medical officials arrived, he was beyond help.

Morgan from Edge Hill at Liverpool was convicted of murder on Friday and will be sentenced to Tuesday, September 2.

Mr. Fairhurst said: “I have never encountered such a threat, especially when someone quit for such a long time.

He continued: “There is something called Osman warnings from the police that the staff is at a serious and close risk of criminal gangs, but I have never recognized that no staff member is targeted in this way.

“It certainly shows how risky and insecure it is.”

When asked about the effect on morale, he told the BBC: “It allows you to rethink your career.

“Is it really risky for the money you get money, because it’s not a good paid job.

“You are in an enemy and severe environment, and now you are threatened when you socialize outside of work or removing your daily activities from the workplace.”

Mr. Scott repeated the concerns brought to the agenda by his parents and said that the prison service believes that the private sector should do more to deal with serious threats.

Fairhurst said that public sector prisons are procedures and policies to protect the personnel and to remove them from a dangerous situation.

“I’m sorry, I hope there will be a learning curve to develop the processes of the private sector and learn how to protect our staff from the public sector.” He said.

Since the company took over from the G4S in 2023, the Ministry of Justice signed a contract by the Ministry of Justice to carry out Altcourse: “Our prison community has been devastated by our former colleague Lenny Scott’s tragic death and with our deepest sympathies family and friends.

“HMP Altcourse has been operated by a new provider since 2023 and is determined to constantly improve the processes to protect our colleagues.”