Lifer recaptured after absconding
A convicted murderer from Hertfordshire who absconded from an open prison has been arrested and returned to jail.
Daniel Driscoll, 33, failed to return to HMP Sudbury in Derbyshire in December 2008 after being let out on temporary release.
He was arrested at an address in Stevenage on Friday after an investigation by Hertfordshire's Serious and Organised Crime department.
He has been returned to prison to complete his sentence without parole. [sic. ? I suspect that the BBC has got this wrong, because a lifer who has got a sentence of natural life would not have been in open conditions, therefore he is still eligible for parole not withstanding that he has absconded]
Driscoll was jailed for life in 1992, when he was aged 18, along with Anthony Coughtrey, then 19, after being convicted of stamping and kicking 19-year-old William Walsh to death at a house in Stevenage.
He was ordered to spend a minimum of 15 years behind bars but in 1998 this was reduced to 13 years.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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