The killer of a former prison officer outside of a gym in Skelmersdale has been jailed for a minimum of 45 years for murder.
Elias Morgan, 35 gunned down Lenny Scott, 33 on February 8, 2024, four years after Mr Scott exposed an illicit affair between prisoner Morgan and a female prison guard. Scott was shot six times by Morgan who approached him in a hi-vis jacket.
Preston Crown Court heard the shooting came after Morgan told the dad-of-three he would "get him" after the prison officer, at HMP Altcourse near Liverpool, searched his cell and found a mobile phone on March 26, 2020.
Lenny, from Prescot, was said to have refused a bribe of £1,500 in return for not reporting a phone which Morgan illegally held behind bars and which contained evidence of an affair.
From that moment, prosecuting barrister Alex Leach KC said, Morgan told Lenny he would get him. "He said he would bide his time, but that he would get him".
Morgan, of Edge Hill in Liverpool, was found guilty on Friday 29 August of murdering Lenny by an 11-person jury, consisting of eight men and three women.
Another man on trial with Morgan, Anthony Cleary, 29, was cleared of both murder and manslaughter.
During the nine week trial at Preston Court Court, the jury heard a call Lenny made to police on 101 just days after he had seized Morgan’s iPhone, where he said he believed his family home was being watched.
Speaking to the call operator, the prison officer said he was in fear of his family’s safety after Morgan allegedly had men watching his house.
