Alleged jail officer used the killer’s friend ‘Laga’

A person wiped tears in the court for helping a former jail officer to kill a 15 -year -old friend to “confess” his friend for shooting in a phone call.

33 -year -old Lenny Scott was shot six times outside a gym in Lancashire’s Scalmersdale on 8 February 2024 at 19:35 GMT.

29-year-old Anthony Cliery left an van with an electric bike near the scene, but refused to know his friend, 35-year-old Eliias Morgan, would use them as “attack and gate-priest” vehicles in shooting-in which Mr. Morgan refuses any participation.

Mr. Cliery told the Preston Crown Court that for the first time he knew about the shooting when Mr. Morgan told him that “I had done someone”.

HGV Driver Mr. Clery, who denies murder and an alternative count of murder, told the jury that he knew Mr. Morgan since he was about 13 years old.

He said that Mr. Morgan called him on the afternoon of 7 February 2024 and offered him £ 150 to transfer a van at a address in Scalmersadele, a short distance from the gym on Peel Road using a low-loader truck.

He claimed that he did not ask Mr. Morgan why he needed to move the van and did not know that it was related to any criminal plan-despite accepting that he knew that Mr. Morgan knew that Mr. Morgan had nine-to-five “jobs and was a competent criminal to violence.

Mr. Cliery said that the next night, on 23:05 GMT, he received a call from Mr. Morgan on WhatsApp.

As part of interrogation of his barrister, Tim Forte KC, Mr. Cly said: “He [Morgan] To tell me that he did someone in the scam and I needed to get rid of the phone. ,

He said that he asked Mr. Morgan whether in the last evening he had to do anything from the van left from there, and it was told that it was.

Shri Fort asked if he believes Mr. Morgan at that time, and Mr. Cliery said: “He is a bit of a clown, he is always messing up all around.

“But he did not think he was messing up.”

He said that his fear was confirmed when he discovered online and received news reports about a shoot in Scalmersdele.

Asked how he felt towards his then close friend, Mr. Kli said: “I was fumming.

“I don’t know the word, as used.”

He admitted that he was in regular contact with Mr. Morgan, told the jury, “If I changed then how I worked towards him, he must have changed how he worked towards me.

“It could have turned into some kind of violence.”

He told the jury that the situation made him feel “trapped”.

In cross-examination, Mr. Morgan’s Barrister, Caroline Goodwin Casey, suggested that Mr. Clear was “bus gutles” and was trying to “get himself out of trouble” by blaming his customer.

He said that the minutes after an alleged life call were implicated him in a murder, Mr. Clery was exchange of Facebook messages about the purchase of a car with a woman.

Mr. Clear said that he was working with “not thinking directly” and just “another problem that I had”.

Ms. Goodwin also said that despite being allegedly asked to “get rid of her phone”, she not only used it, but Mr. Morgan continued to contact him on that number.

He said: “I am going to suggest if there was any confession and you put two and two together and he said that your phone would have to be dug, you must have done it.

“But you didn’t, have you done?”

Mr. Clear replied: “No.”

His Alex Leach Casey, prosecution was also cross -examined by the prosecution, who questioned him about a scrabgab of the Google Map image sent to Mr. Morgan on the evening of 7 February.

He said that the map showed the gym on Peel Road, not the property where he had left the van.

Mr. Leach said: “It showed the place where only 24 hours later, Mr. Scott was shot.”

Mr. Cliery said that he does not remember why the map was sent.

Mr. Leach suggested an explanation that it was the “bad luck” that he sent a map of the murder scene to Mr. Morgan, who would be accused of shooting, who ran the van used by the gunman for the scene of the murder.

Mr. Cliery denied the option that Mr. Litch suggested that he really knew “what Mr. Morgan was planning.

The prosecution has alleged that the murder of Mr. Scott did “vengeance” after four years of seizing a phone from Mr. Morgan’s jail cell at HMP Ollackores in Liverpool.

The jury heard the data on the phone that Mr. Morgan was in a sexual relationship with a female jail officer named Sarah Williams, who was later jailed.

At that time Mr. Scott informed the police and jail officials that he was threatened by Mr. Morgan, who had heard the jury that the jail officer said “I would find you” while creating a gun sign.

The test is going on.