Carl Morgan (born 1981) is a former

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of the

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group

So Solid Crew So Solid Crew are a British UK garage and hip hop collective originating from the area on and surrounding the Winstanley and York Road Estates in Battersea, London which achieved wide success in the early 2000s. The group consisted of many m ...

. In October 2005, he was sentenced to 30 years for murdering a love rival. He was tried before a jury for the murder of 24-year-old Colin Scarlett in

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, in November 2004. Colin Scarlett, the partner of Morgan's ex-girlfriend (who has two children by Morgan), had beaten Morgan up earlier on the day of the murder. Morgan then returned with a gun and shot Scarlett. The jury failed to reach a verdict on the same charge faced by So Solid Crew rapper Megaman, who faced a retrial in March 2006 where the jury was discharged before a verdict could be reached. A second retrial began in September 2006, and on 28 September Megaman was found not guilty of murder at the

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. Morgan's trial judge recommended that he should spend at least 30 years in prison before being considered for parole, a recommendation that is expected to keep him behind bars until at least 2034 and the age of 53. Morgan appeared in So Solid Crew's video for the track "

21 Seconds "21 Seconds" is a song by UK garage crew So Solid Crew. Released as the second single from their debut album, '' They Don't Know'' (2001), it was the first of five consecutive top-20 hit singles for the group, topping the UK Singles Chart in Aug ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Carl 1981 births Living people English record producers English people convicted of murder Hip hop record producers People convicted of murder by England and Wales People from Battersea Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by England and Wales Rappers from the London Borough of Wandsworth So Solid Crew members English prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment Black British musicians English people of Zambian descent