A PRISONER who absconded from Springhill Open Prison on Sunday, has been found in Oxford.

Lee Pullen, 24, is in police custody and police said he would be handed over to the prison service later.

Pullen, originally from Blackbird Leys in Oxford, had been missing from Spring Hill open prison, Bucks, since Sunday.

Pullen was serving a three-year jail sentence for assault causing actual bodily harm, burglary, taking a motorcycle without consent and failing to surrender.