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Rapist killer Keith Whitehouse recaptured after going on the run

Keith Whitehouse failed to appear for a roll call on Saturday evening, having already not been seen for several hours.

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Image: Keith Whitehouse has absconded from jail
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A killer serving a life sentence for battering a woman with a brick and raping her in a graveyard has been recaptured after he absconded from prison.

Keith Whitehouse, who killed and raped 21-year-old Suzanne Bromiley while on leave from a 30-month kidnapping sentence in 1991, failed to appear for a roll call at Leyhill open prison in south Gloucestershire on Saturday evening.

However, Avon & Somerset Police tweeted on Sunday morning to say he had been arrested by officers in Gloucestershire.

It is the second time the 56-year-old has absconded from prison, having killed Ms Bromiley during five-days' leave from Risley jail in Warrington.

Whitehouse - who was known to have a psychopathic personality disorder - also stabbed his victim in the head after meeting her at a day centre for unemployed people in Brighton.

Nobody had looked for him during his absence from jail until he killed Ms Bromiley - more than four months after he had gone missing.

He was handed a life sentence for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.