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Convicted killer and rapist arrested after going on the run from mental health centre in east London | |
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A convicted killer and rapist who absconded from a mental health centre has been arrested, police said. | |
Officers launched a manhunt after Samuel Lee, 44, failed to return from an authorised trip from the John Howard Centre, Kenworthy Road, Hackney, east London, last Thursday afternoon. | |
But he was found in the Sussex seaside town of Eastbourne this evening. | |
Lee is serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2006 of snatching a 31-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer in Finsbury Park, north London and raping her during a terrifying hour-long attack in 2000. | |
Just a decade earlier, in 1989, he was jailed for manslaughter for stabbing a man to death. | |
Police thanked the public and press for their help in trying to track down Lee, who officers had described as "violent". | |
Lee's escape came after a string of dangerous convicts absconded from open prisons while on day release in recent weeks. | |
Violent armed robber Michael Wheatley, dubbed the "skullcracker", was jailed for life last week for raiding a Surrey building society while on the run from an open prison. | |
And convicted murderer Arnold Pickering, 44, has been charged with absconding from HMP Kennett after visiting Liverpool on licence earlier this month. | |
The escapes sparked a political row and Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has vowed to tighten rules surrounding prisoners' trips out from open prisons. | |
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