An inspection found the ingress of drugs was a "major threat" to safety and security and resulted in a rise in ...

The carefully planned killing of a former prison officer simply for doing his job has "horrified" the profession and damaged morale, according to a union chief. Lenny Scott, 33, was shot dead in ...

Paul Heath - who worked as a maintenance contractor for Amey at HMP Liverpool - smuggled thousands of pounds of cannabis into the lock-up, driven by his crippling gambling addiction ...

A defence witness denied telling a "pack of lies" to a jury for a man accused of murdering a former prison officer in a "revenge" plot. Elias Morgan, 35, claimed he was seeing a man about a dog at the ...

A "Rich Kid of Instagram" who funded his luxury lifestyle by scamming people out of hundreds of thousands of pounds is currently awaiting sentence at HMP Altcourse. The Category B prison is a far cry ...

When a former prison officer was executed in a cold-blooded murder, it destroyed the lives of those around him. But the impact extended far wider. Dad-of-three Lenny Scott was gunned down after ...

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Neil and Paula Scott endured weeks of watching the murder trial at Preston Crown Court [BBC] For nine weeks the parents of former prison officer Lenny Scott listened quietly in the public gallery of ...