Murderer Alan Giles charged over prison escape
Killer Alan Giles has been charged with absconding from lawful custody after going missing from prison for nine days.
Police launched a manhunt after Giles vanished from an open part of HMP Hewell near Redditch on October 28.
He was later found in Alcester, Warwickshire, on Wednesday.
West Mercia Police said the 56-year-old had now been formally charged and was appearing before Worcester Magistrates Court today.
He was arrested in the Gunnings Road area of Alcester following a call from a member of the public to the police.
Giles, who has family in Oldbury and across the West Midlands, is serving two life sentences after being jailed 16 years ago for murdering 16-year-old Kevin Ricketts from Quinton in 1995.
He was jailed for kidnap and murder in 1997. A year later Giles phoned police from his cell to tell officers where he had buried the body.
After spending hours carefully excavating earth in the back garden of a house in leafy Gough Road, Edgbaston, forensic anthropologists managed to recover a body that had been concealed five feet below the surface.
Dental records and X-rays confirmed that the body was Kevin's although the body was too badly decomposed to establish a cause of death.
