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Whole-life prison terms move hailed
Daily Express
|December 17, 2025
THE parents of a murdered former prison officer have hailed the expansion of whole-life orders so that more killers die behind bars.
Justice Secretary David Lammy yesterday said the scope for the sentences, which state a prisoner can never be released from jail, will be widened to include offenders convicted of killing former police, prison or probation officers.
Father-of-three Lenny Scott, 33, who was no longer with the Prison Service, was shot last February in Skelmersdale, Lancs, by convicted drugs offender Elias Morgan, 35.
This story is from the December 17, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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