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Lee Nevins, 24, who was serving a minimum 17-year sentence at top-security Frankland Prison in Durham, escaped from Sunderland Royal Hospital last Tuesday afternoon.

He was apprehended at noon on Monday when Northumbria Police with Scottish Police raided a house in Tillcoultry in central Scotland.

Nevins, who has previous convictions for violence, and Mark Lang were jailed for beating to death 20-year-old disabled man, Lee Jobling, after drunkenly gate-crashing a party at his flat in Gateshead's Leam Lane Estate in April 2006.

The two men, both from Gateshead, were found guilty of Mr Jobling's murder in 2006 at Newcastle Crown Court.

The court heard the pair ignored their victim's pleas for mercy and as he struggled for breath, began singing Old MacDonald Had A Farm. Mr Jobling died 19 days later from head injuries.

Nevins escaped from Sunderland Royal Hospital, where he was taken to receive treatment to an injury to his left hand.

He asked to be taken to the toilet and managed to slip one set of handcuffs and get past two guards.

Last week police arrested a youth and two men on suspicion of assisting an offender, and they were later released on bail.

Newcastle Central Station was also closed by police on Saturday evening as part of the manhunt.