POLICE have captured an escaped prisoner in Ipswich.A spokeswoman for Suffolk police said 49-year-old James “Rocky” Purcell was arrested at a shop in Ipswich yesterday afternoon.
POLICE have captured an escaped prisoner in Ipswich.
A spokeswoman for Suffolk police said 49-year-old James “Rocky” Purcell, who was serving five years and eight months for robbery, was arrested at a shop in Ipswich yesterday afternoon.
The spokeswoman said: “He will now be returned to the prison system.”
Purcell had been on the run for more than a month having absconded from Hollesley Bay prison on June 3.
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