On-the-run murderer back in custody

A convicted murderer who went on the run after being let out of a high-security prison in the North is back in custody, the Northern Ireland Prison Service has said.

On-the-run murderer back in custody

A convicted murderer who went on the run after being let out of a high-security prison in the North is back in custody, the Northern Ireland Prison Service has said.

William Sloan, 51, who was jailed for his role in the death of a man who was beaten with a hammer in 1989, is understood to have handed himself in to police in Manchester in England today.

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