Jury shown CCTV of gunman shooting ex-prison guard

A jury has seen CCTV footage of the last moments of former prison officer Lenny Scott before he was shot six times.

The 33-year-old was killed outside a gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on 8 February 2024.

Prosecutors allege the murder was motivated by revenge because, four years earlier, Mr Scott seized a HMP Liverpool prisoner's phone which contained evidence of the inmate's sexual relationship with a female guard.

CCTV of the ambush was played at Preston Crown Court earlier where the former prisoner, Elias Morgan, 35, of Edge Hill in Liverpool, is on trial accused of being the gunman.

The killer, wearing an orange high-visibility jacket, waited in the car park of the gym in Peel Road for 53 minutes before Mr Scott emerged at 19:34 GMT.

The footage showed the gunman walk towards Mr Scott, who was standing by his car chatting to another man.

Mr Scott was shot in the head and body before the gunman fled on an electric bike to a getaway van parked on a nearby estate.

Father of three Lenny Scott died in what prosecutors say was a revenge plot related to his former job as a prison officer

The prosecution claim the van, a white Vauxhall Combo, had been parked there with the electic bike in the back, by 29-year-old Anthony Cleary who is also on trial and denies murder.

The jury has been told the van was also previously registered to a cleaning company, EDM Cleaning Ltd, run by Morgan's brother Ezra Morgan.

Alex Leach KC, prosecuting, had earlier told the jury the evidence they would hear "presented a powerful image".

"One in which Elias Morgan, driven by a desire for revenge and reliant on Anthony Cleary for his assistance, planned and executed the murder of Lenny Scott," he said.

The jury heard before the shooting Mr Morgan had allegedly driven to the Darfield estate, a short distance away from the complex containing the gym, in a Mercedes GLC car previously insured in his mother's name.

Mr Leach said the car had arrived at 17:48, and a few minutes later CCTV showed a figure walking from Darfield to the nearby Daybrook estate, where the van had been parked about 40 minutes earlier.

The jury heard at 18:06 CCTV showed the bike doing a "dry run" to the gym and back to the estate.

The gunman returned to the car-park at 18:48, where he waited until Mr Scott emerged from the building.

The trial continues.