{"id":109367,"date":"2025-09-02T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109367\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:07:09","slug":"killer-gets-45-years-for-prison-officer-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109367\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer gets 45 years for prison officer &#8216;execution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny HumphriesBBC News, Preston Crown Court<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756608068_155_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b6c0fa90-84db-11f0-957a-0d3acbd64f12.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Lancashire Police A police mugshot of Elias Morgan, who has black hair and dark stubble, staring into the camera with a blank expression.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Lancashire Police<\/p>\n<p>Elias Morgan killed father-of-three Lenny Scott in an &#8220;act of retaliation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A gangland &#8220;executioner&#8221; 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<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Armed robber Elias Morgan shot father-of-three Lenny Scott six times outside a gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on 8 February 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">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<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Police said Mr Scott had been &#8220;assassinated&#8221; by Morgan, who was described as a &#8220;cold-blooded executioner who took a man&#8217;s life doing his job&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756608068_155_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f5491000-8458-11f0-ac22-23eab80bee76.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Lancashire Police Lenny Scott, who is bald and has a ginger beard, poses with his arms around his young sons. They are eating hot-dogs and their faces have been blurred.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Lancashire Police<\/p>\n<p>Lenny Scott was the father of twin boys and a younger child<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Det Ch Insp Lee Wilson said he was a &#8220;man of huge integrity and bravery who did the right thing and who sadly paid the ultimate price by doing so&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Morgan listened to the sentencing at Preston Crown Court quietly after telling his barrister to say &#8220;nothing at all&#8221; on his behalf. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Caroline Goodwin, KC, representing him, told the court: &#8220;My very firm instructions are that I am to offer no mitigation, no submissions and no representations to the court.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonny HumphriesBBC News, Preston Crown Court Lancashire Police Elias Morgan killed father-of-three Lenny Scott in an &#8220;act of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-109367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}