A convicted sex offender with strong links to Medway who had been on the run from police has been found and arrested after an appeal on the BBC's Crimewatch.

Tony Cyril Carr was arrested in Portsmouth on Wednesday after appearing on the programme on Tuesday night. It was the second time police had appealed for help in tracing his whereabouts.

During the show, Det Con Tania Muller from Medway received a call from a member of the public in Hampshire who believed they knew where Carr was.

Police in Hampshire had also received a similar call from a different member of the public, who said they had seen Carr regularly in the Portsmouth area.

He was arrested by Hampshire police and will be brought to Kent.

Det Con Muller said: "We are delighted with the speed at which the information came in enabling us to find and arrest him so quickly."

Carr, 50, was wanted for breaching the conditions of his release by failing to notify police of his current address.

He has 31 convictions for indecently exposing himself, between 1975 and 2006, which mainly occurred in Kent, Hampshire and London.

He was jailed for three years in March 2006, for exposing himself in front of children who were playing nearby and, on a separate occasion, exposing himself to a woman and her son.

These offences were committed in Chatham and Aylesford - however, he is predominantly known in the Medway area.

He is subject to the notification requirements of the Sex Offences Act 2003 for life and is on a sex offender prevention order. Originally released in January 2007, he was recalled twice for breaching his licence conditions.

He was released again in April this year and has once more breached his licence conditions by failing to attend approved premises in the county. He has also failed to notify the police of his current address.