A former inmate who waited 4 years to carry out a revenge killing of an ex-prison officer has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 45 years for the murder.

Elias Morgan, 35, shot father-of-three Lenny Scott six times at close range as he left a gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on 8 February 2024.

Four years earlier, while working at HMP Altcourse in Liverpool, Scott, 33, had recovered a mobile phone from Morgan’s cell in March 2020 which revealed the inmate was having an affair with a female prison guard named Sarah Williams.

Morgan, from Edge Hill, Liverpool, first tried to bribe Scott by offering him £1,500 to not report the find.

When Mr Scott refused and reported the phone, Morgan threatened the then-prison officer’s family and told him: “I’ll bide my time, but I promise I will get you.”

CCTV footage captured the moment Scott was gunned down while Morgan was on bail for having the phone in his cell.

Scott had left the Prison Service three years before the shooting took place. Morgan handed himself in to police after his name began circulating in connection with the attack.

The killer denied any involvement but was convicted of murder by a jury last Friday.

The gun used in the murder has never been recovered.