The chilling moment a gunman wearing hi-vis shot a father-of-three dead outside a gym for ‘exposing an illicit prison affair’ has been captured on CCTV.
Lenny Scott, 33, who was the father of twins, was shot six times outside a gym on February 8 last year.
The footage, with audible gunshots, was played to the jury who watched the tragic last moments of Mr Scott’s life.
The motive behind the killing lay in his former job at Altcourse prison in Liverpool nearly four years earlier, the murder trial jury was told.
Mr Scott had searched inmate Elias Morgan’s cell and found a mobile phone on March 26, 2020, Preston Crown Court was told.
Not only was possession of the phone a criminal offence, but Morgan knew it contained evidence which would expose his sexual relationship with prison officer Sarah Williams, prosecutor Alex Leach KC said.
Morgan, who denies murder, told Mr Scott to ‘balls up the paperwork’ and even offered him £1,500 not to report it, jurors were told.
But the prison officer submitted the paperwork – and from that moment ‘Elias Morgan told Lenny Scott that he would get him, he said he would bide his time, but that he would get him’.
Lenny Scott, 33, who was the father of twins, was shot six times outside a gym on February 8 last year by a man wearing hi-vis
The motive behind the killing lay in Mr Scott’s (pictured) former job at Altcourse prison in Liverpool nearly four years earlier, the murder trial jury was told
Mr Scott had searched inmate Elias Morgan’s (pictured) cell and found a mobile phone on March 26, 2020, Preston Crown Court was told
Footage shows how Mr Scott left the gym shortly before 5:30pm and stood chatting to someone in the car park for a short time.
A man, wearing orange hi-vis, could be seen loitering nearby, seemingly waiting for someone.
As Mr Scott stood next to a car chatting, the man slowly approached him before suddenly rounding the corner with a gun, which he then opened fire with on the former prison officer. The jury were shown the footage on Thursday.
Mr Leach told jurors that on February 8, 2024, Mr Scott was leaving a gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire ‘when he was approached by a man wearing a high-visibility jacket and carrying a handgun’.
‘The man shot him, six times, to the head and body,’ he said.
‘Lenny Scott died of his injuries.
‘The murder was, the prosecution says, an act of retaliation.’
He told jurors that the evidence would show that Morgan ‘orchestrated’ the murder and ‘pulled the trigger himself’.
Mr Scott (pictured) had searched inmate Elias Morgan’s cell and found a mobile phone on March 26, 2020, Preston Crown Court was told
Footage shows how Mr Scott left the gym shortly before 5:30pm and stood chatting to someone in the car park for a short time
A man, wearing orange hi-vis, could be seen loitering nearby, seemingly waiting for someone
As Mr Scott stood next to a car chatting, the man slowly approached him before suddenly rounding the corner with a gun
The former guard was allegedly killed for exposing prison officer Sarah Williams’s (pictured) illicit relationship
The court heard in the days after Mr Scott found the phone, he reported being threatened by Morgan.
He told his father that Morgan had said words to the effect of ‘I’ll bide my time, but I promise I will get you’ before making a gun gesture towards him.
A ‘visibly frightened’ Mr Scott also told his former partner that Morgan had threatened him that his ‘home would be blown up with his family inside’.
Four days later he told a police call hander: ‘I’m in fear for my family’s life.’
The jury heard he also reported the ‘threats’ to the Prison Service, saying Morgan had told him his family would be hurt if he did not ‘drop’ the illegal phone matter.
Instead the phone was examined and Morgan was arrested, later being charged with unauthorised possession of the mobile phone.
Williams, the officer with whom he’d had a relationship, later admitted three offences of misconduct in a public officer and a computer misuse offence.
The trail continues.
