Elias Morgan, 35, shot former HMP Altcourse officer Lenny Scott four years after a row over an illicit phone
A former inmate has been found guilty of murdering a prison officer in a revenge killing, four years after saying “I promise I will get you.”
Elias Morgan, 35, planned and carried out the shooting of Lenny Scott, a former HMP Altcourse prison officer who had discovered Morgan’s illicit mobile phone hidden behind bars in his cell.
Scott was shot six times on 8 February 2024 in an “act of retaliation” after leaving a gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, four years after the row with Morgan in March 2020 over the mobile phone, which exposed the inmate’s affair with a female prison guard.
Morgan offered Scott £1,500 to get rid of the phone and when that did not succeed, Preston crown court heard, he turned to threats, warning him: “I’ll bide my time but I promise I will get you.” Morgan also made a gun gesture with his fingers.
