Vincent Saywell was serving a sentence for murder

A murderer who went missing from a Kent prison is back behind bars after almost a week on the run.

Vincent Saywell was on temporary release from Blantyre House open prison, in Goudhurst, when he disappeared.

Now the 54-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of being unlawfully at large and is in police custody.

Saywell had been let out of Blantyre House to work in Maidstone last Wednesday - but failed to return to the jail.

He was found five days later when he was arrested in Plymouth yesterday.

Saywell failed to return to Blantyre House open prison in Goudhurst

In June, two inmates went missing from Blantyre House in just a fortnight.

Raymond Atkins, 39, had been allowed home for family reasons, but did not stay at an agreed bail hostel on Saturday, June 30.

Just two weeks earlier, a murderer who stabbed a teacher to death was on the run for three days after escaping from Blantyre House.

Jamie Frater, 38, failed to return following work at a charity shop in Headcorn.

He had been convicted in 1993 for murdering 45-year-old Geoffrey du Rose and jailed for life.