A CONVICTED murderer who was on the run from Yorkshire has been found and arrested in London.

William Kerr, 53, was wanted for emergency recall to prison after he absconded from approved premises in Hull last month.

After an appeal on BBC's Crimewatch on Thursday, Kerr was arrested in Waterloo, London, at around 7pm on Friday by detectives from North Yorkshire Police and the Metropolitan Police's Homicide Task Force.

Detective Inspector Eamonn Clarke, of North Yorkshire Police, who led the search for Kerr, said: "Thanks to some information received following the Crimewatch appeal and some further information passed to Crimestoppers we were able to track Kerr to a specific area of London.

"The information was vital to the effort to trace Kerr as he indicated when he was arrested that he was about to leave the London area after seeing himself on Crimewatch. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the people who came forward.

"I would also like to thank the Metropolitan Police for the assistance they have given us in our efforts to locate Kerr."

Kerr was jailed for life for murder in 1998, but released on licence in January.