Prisoner is arrested after going on the run

Image source, Suffolk Police

Image caption, Michael Cocksedge, 22, was serving a sentence at Hollesley Bay Prison, in Suffolk

A prisoner serving an eleven-and-a-half-year sentence for GBH and violent disorder has been arrested after going on the run from an open prison.

Michael Cocksedge, 22, was reported missing at about 19:00 BST on Monday from Hollesley Bay, Suffolk Police said.

He was "absent from a roll call" at the jail on the coast near Woodbridge, the force said.

Cocksedge, formerly of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, was arrested in Cambridge, at about 21:20 on Tuesday and returned to the prison system.

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