{"id":62203,"date":"2025-09-02T15:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/killer-gets-45-years-for-prison-officer-execution\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:44:38","slug":"killer-gets-45-years-for-prison-officer-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/killer-gets-45-years-for-prison-officer-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer gets 45 years for prison officer ‘execution’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jonny Humphries<\/span>BBC News, Preston Crown Court<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elias Morgan killed father-of-three Lenny Scott in an “act of retaliation”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A gangland “executioner” who waited four years to take revenge on a prison officer for seizing a phone from his cell has been jailed for a minimum of 45 years for his murder. <\/p>\n

Armed robber Elias Morgan shot father-of-three Lenny Scott six times outside a gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on 8 February 2024. <\/p>\n

Investigators at HMP Altcourse in Liverpool discovered evidence Morgan was having a sexual relationship with a female officer called Sarah Williams after the phone was found in March 2020.<\/p>\n

Police said Mr Scott had been “assassinated” by Morgan, who was described as a “cold-blooded executioner who took a man’s life doing his job”. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Det Ch Insp Lee Wilson said Mr Scott was a “man of huge integrity and bravery who did the right thing and who sadly paid the ultimate price by doing so”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lenny Scott was the father of twin boys and a younger child<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Sentencing Morgan to a life term, judge Mr Justice Goose told him he was satisfied the murder was a “revenge killing” for what Mr Scott “did lawfully in his duty as a prison officer”.<\/p>\n

“The murder of the deceased has caused profound grief to the deceased’s family, his young children and all who knew him,” he said. <\/p>\n

“He was 33 with most of his life ahead of him.<\/p>\n

“He was loved, he was respected and he made them proud.”<\/p>\n

Morgan listened to the sentencing at Preston Crown Court quietly after telling his barrister to say “nothing at all” on his behalf. <\/p>\n

Caroline Goodwin, KC, representing him, told the court: “My very firm instructions are that I am to offer no mitigation, no submissions and no representations to the court.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Neil and Paula Scott endured weeks of watching the murder trial at Preston Crown Court<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The trial heard<\/a> Morgan had offered Mr Scott \u00a31,500 as a bribe to “lose” the phone when it was found.<\/p>\n

When he refused, Morgan made a series of threats which “terrified” Mr Scott, including accurately describing his address, and what his partner and twin boys looked like. <\/p>\n

At the time Mr Scott told his father, Neil Scott, that Morgan had said to him: “I’ll bide my time, but I promise I will get you” before making a gun gesture with his fingers.<\/p>\n

During the sentencing hearing Mr Scott’s mother, Paula Scott, spoke to Morgan directly while giving statement. <\/p>\n

She told him: “My son was everything you are not. He was strong, brave, honest, respectful, hardworking, kind, and principled. He stood for what was right.<\/p>\n

“You are a violent, inhumane coward. I am hurt, I am angry, and I will never forgive you.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

CCTV captured the moment the gunman approached the prison officer at a gym<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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The court also heard from Lucy Griffiths, the ex-partner of Mr Scott and mother of his twin boys. <\/p>\n

She described the pain of having to tell the boys, then six, of their father’s death and the struggles that followed. <\/p>\n

Speaking from behind a screen, she said: “I find letters they write to him hidden under their pillow asking for him to come back, this is so upsetting to find as a mother.<\/p>\n

“They have had nightmares about men chasing them with guns because of what’s happened.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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