A Gateshead murderer is back behind bars after going on the run from an open prison.
Lee Nevins was jailed for life for killing disabled man Lee Jobling in an unprovoked attack in 2006. However, the convicted murderer absconded from HMP Sudbury in Derbyshire while out on day release and went on the run for almost two weeks.
Nevins was found in Washington on Saturday, October 8 by officers from Northumbria Police and arrested. He was charged with remaining unlawfully at large after temporary release.
Derbyshire Police confirmed that Nevins has now been jailed after appearing at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court on Monday, October 10. Nevins was sentenced to 12 months in a Category B prison.
It is the second time that Nevins has escaped from prison. In 2008, Nevins got away after being taken from Frankland Prison to Sunderland Royal Hospital with a hand injury.
He was on the run for six days before Northumbria and Central Scotland police caught him at an address in Tillicoultry, near Stirling, Scotland.
HM Prison Service said that Nevins now faces an "uphill struggle" to prove he can be trusted to be in an open prison again.
A HM Prison Service spokesman said: “Lee Nevins is now in now in police custody and will face an uphill struggle proving he can ever be trusted to move to an open prison again. Protecting the public is our priority and we recently introduced tougher tests that most dangerous criminals must pass before they can move into open prisons.”
The Ministry of Justice said that it "does not hesitate" to move prisoners back to tougher, closed jails if they breach the rules of open prisons and confirmed that if an offender fails in an open prison, they are excluded from returning to an open prison for at least two years.
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