On-the-run murderer is found

A CONVICTED murderer, whose last known address was in Oldham, has been caught after going on the run from prison.

Darren Jackson (51) absconded from HMP Sudbury on Tuesday but was arrested yesterday in the Staffordshire Moorlands by Staffordshire Police and remains in custody.

Jackson, originally from Burnley, was jailed for life in 1986 for the murder of mother-of-three Gill Ellis (29), who he stamped to death in December, 1984, after she was robbed on her way home from a Christmas party in Burnley.

Muggers stole Gill's handbag as she walked across a recreation ground to her home where her family was sleeping.

Horrendous

As she lay unconscious, glue-sniffing Jackson, then 21, stamped on Gill's stomach with his size 11 Doc Marten boots, causing horrendous injuries from which she died.

He was jailed for life in 1986 after he was found guilty of murder following a trial at Manchester Crown Court.

In August, 1997, Jackson escaped from Ranby Prison in Nottinghamshire after he and a fellow inmate cut through two perimeter fences.

He went on the run for three days before giving himself up after he was spotted on the Leeds to Liverpool Canal in Colne.