This is the moment former prison officer
Lenny Scott was gunned down. An act of
revenge four years in the making. Scott
worked at HMP alt course in Liverpool
where in 2020 he discovered a phone in a
prisoner's cell. Information on that
device revealing an affair between a
prisoner Elias Morgan and a female
prison officer. When Morgan failed to
keep Scott quiet with a bribe, he turned
to threats.
Hello, please.
>> Yeah, I'm a officer at HMPL course. Um,
I've been just being informed that
there's a there's been a car set outside
my house all weekend and by a prisoner.
>> And who's made the threat?
>> Elias Morgan.
>> He's he's described my family and me to
a tea. Describe me house
just in fear for me family's life. at
all.
>> It was a grudge Morgan refused to let
go. And 4 years later, on bail, awaiting
trial for having the phone in his cell,
he followed through with those threats,
finding Scott outside a gym and shooting
him six times at close range.
Two weeks later, with the net closing
in, Morgan handed himself in at a police
station. He was on trial alongside his
longtime friend Anthony Clearary.
Clearary was accused of supporting the
murder plan by leaving a van and
electric bike near the scene of the
shooting. He said he had no idea Morgan
was planning to shoot anyone, and the
jury cleared him of both murder and
manslaughter. The police say Morgan's
actions were coldblooded. Oh yeah. To
kill a man, take a man's life, a man who
clearly had the utmost standard of
integrity, doing his job, simply doing
his job to keep people safe in the
community, to wait that length of time,
and to then act upon that and take
Lenny's life in this cold, calculated,
and callous way, discharging a firearm,
regardless of who else was around at the
time. Um, beggars belief, actually.
>> Yeah. Scott's parents say what happened
has left their families struggling for
answers
>> to to do what he did it it just
incomprehensible
>> while he was a prison officer he he
wasn't worried about what they they were
in prison for he was doing a job and he
wanted to make a difference
um I think he most probably felt that he
was making that difference once he got
those threats it brought it back into
real life for him that actually this
could affect his family um and did
affect his family.
>> Two, three.
>> And even though justice has been done,
an act of vengeance has seen these
children left without their father.
Shingi Marik Sky News Preston Crown