Liverpool: Fugitive Daniel Gee has been arrested after a month on the run

Merseyside Police released pictures of Gee smiling and wearing a blue vest, taken after his arrest.

At the time of his disappearance, the Ministry of Justice confirmed that Gee had gone missing from a Category D prison and said it was a “rare scenario”.

CCTV footage was later released of him appearing to board a train from Darlington to Liverpool Lime Street with a woman.

Gee is serving a Public Protection Imprisonment (PPI), a prison term introduced in 2005 for serious offenders and persistent offenders but abolished in 2012.

Under an IPP, sentences are indeterminate rather than fixed-term, with a minimum period of incarceration before the inmate is considered for release.

But in some cases, inmates have remained behind bars for many years after their minimum terms have expired.