{"id":696838,"date":"2026-07-17T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696838\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:27:09","slug":"gang-rapper-ellis-heather-jailed-for-murdering-stephen-morrisson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696838\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang rapper Ellis Heather jailed for murdering Stephen Morrisson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heather went on to rap about what he did with the lyrics: &#8220;OL got wet and he&#8217;s dead (wet, wet, wet, wet).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also partied after the murder, listening to music by the victim&#8217;s brother, Morrisson, who has charted in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police arrested Heather within days of the murder, but it was five years before he was charged in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their investigation involved analysis of more than 200 hours of CCTV footage and evidence gathered from 50 phones and five vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Ch Insp Greg Wood, of Essex Police, said Morrisson&#8217;s family had shown &#8220;tremendous strength&#8221; in the six years since his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;His loved ones have lived with the unimaginable pain of losing Stephen, while patiently waiting for those responsible to be held accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heather went on to rap about what he did with the lyrics: &#8220;OL got wet and he&#8217;s dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696838","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=696838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}