An escaped convict who was jailed for life has been arrested and returned to prison following a two-day escape.
Lee Fudge, 29, was found by Kent Police in Gravesend on Saturday (July 4) after absconding from Ford open prison in Arundel, West Sussex.
In 2007 Fudge, previously of Margate, was convicted of robbing a BP garage on the coastbound carriageway of the A2.
Lee Fudge, 29, and Mark Chatfield, 39, absconded from Ford open prison.
Sussex Police launched an appeal after Fudge and fellow prisoner Mark Chatfield walked out of the prison on July 2.
Fudge, who has links to Gravesend and Birchington in Kent, was last seen in the prison at 8am.
Chatfield, 39, was jailed for four years for burglary in August 2014 after he broke into a home in Guildford, Surrey, in December 2013.
A Sussex Police spokesperson said Fudge had been arrested and returned to custody.
They added: "Thanks to the public and the media for their help tracing him."
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