Jenrick calls for compensation for murdered former prison officer's family
Lenny Scott was killed outside a gym in Skelmersdale
Robert Jenrick has called for a murdered former prison officer's family to receive compensation, in his first Commons contribution as a Reform UK MP.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch kicked Mr Jenrick out of her shadow cabinet on Thursday, after he allegedly plotted "in secret to defect" to Nigel Farage's party.
He joined Reform UK the same day.
Mr Jenrick sat at Prime Minister's Questions between Lee Anderson and Danny Kruger, who also left the Conservatives for Reform UK while they were sitting MPs.
"One of the last meetings that I took as shadow justice secretary was with the parents of Lenny Scott," he told the Commons.
"Lenny Scott was an exceptionally brave prison officer.
"He uncovered corruption in his prison.
"He left the service and years later he was hunted down and brutally murdered."
Father-of-three Mr Scott was shot dead by armed robber Elias Morgan for seizing an illicit phone from his jail cell years earlier while working at HMP Altcourse in Merseyside.
It is understood the device revealed that Morgan was in a sexual relationship with a female prison officer.
The murderer was jailed for life with a minimum term of 45 years before being eligible for parole in September last year.
Mr Scott died after he had left the Prison Service, so "there was never any compensation paid to the children that he left behind", Newark MP Mr Jenrick said.
"I know the Prime Minister would want to right this wrong. I wrote to the Justice Secretary (David Lammy) privately after I discovered this, and I should say, his parents never asked for any support.
"Would the Prime Minister correct this, ensure that this brave man's children have the support that they need as they grow up without the father that they deserve, and join me in thanking all the brave men and women who serve us in our Prison Service?"
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said:
"I thank him (Mr Jenrick) for raising this and I will make sure that it is looked into as a matter of urgency given the circumstances he's set out."
Mr Lammy last month announced plans to "broaden the starting point for whole-life orders to include murders connected to the current or former duties of a police, prison or probation officer".