Gloucestershire

Police search for absconded prisoner centres on Plymouth

A search is underway for a man who has absconded from HMP Leyhill in Gloucestershire. Police report that enquiries have traced him to the Plymouth area.

Wayne Richard Head, aged 35, was last seen in Leyhill prison at 5.30am on Monday (2 September) and was reported missing a few hours later. He is serving an indeterminate sentence for a robbery committed in 2007.

It was believed...