A CONVICTED murderer who ‘stamped to death’ a Burnley mother-of-three and absconded from prison for the second time has been caught.

Darren Jackson, 51, was given a life sentence for killing Gillian Ellis in December 1984.

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He was serving part of his sentence at HMP Sudbury open prison but absconded on Tuesday morning.

He was arrested by police in Staffordshire earlier today.

He had been released and later recalled to prison.

Jackson, who previously escaped from Ranby Prison in Nottinghamshire in 1997, has been warned by the Ministry of Justice that he faces a longer sentence in a closed prison.

Police forces across the country were warned to be on the look out for him and the public was warned not to approach him.

Jackson was 21 years old when he killed Gillian Ellis in December 1984,

During a trial in 1986 Manchester Crown Court heard how Gillian, 29, a cutter at the Dorma factory in Burnley, had been to a works party at Coal Clough House Hotel and was walking the short distance home to Clay Street when she was attacked by muggers and then by punk music-lover and glue sniffer Jackson.

First she was robbed and left unconscious by a gang who stole her handbag.

Then she was seen by Jackson, who stamped on her leaving an impression of his size 11 Doc Marten boots on her stomach.

The court was told she had suffered terrible and massive internal injuries.

The shocked court heard that Jackson stamped on her with such ferocity that a main blood vessel to her heart was torn, her pancreas split and ribs fractured.

Jackson, then 21, denied murder but admitted stealing a shoe, watch and make-up bag. He was found guilty and sentenced to life.