Escaped rapist from West Yorkshire is found

A convicted rapist from West Yorkshire who absconded from prison has been found.
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Adam Mark

Adam Mark escaped from HMP Leyhill, in South Gloucestershire, on Tuesday.

Police believed he may have tried to return to his home county.

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But he was spotted in Hambrook in Bristol by a member of the public yesterday (Thursday).

Police said the 37-year-old had been arrested and would be handed over to the prison authorities.

Mark was serving a life sentence for abducting and raping a woman, as well as attempting to abduct and rape two other women in Leeds in the 1990s.