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Jun 2021
Found: Police issue urgent plea to find missing murderer with local links
Update: Police arrested William Kerr last night in Hull. Officers will now return him to prison. North Yorkshire Police thanked everyone who shared the appeal to find him.
Police have urged people in the Harrogate district to report any sightings of a missing murderer who has been recalled to prison.
William Kerr, 59, was convicted of murder in 1998 after strangling Maureen Comfort, 49, in Leeds. He was released from prison on licence in August last year.
However, his licence has since been revoked and he has been recalled to prison for failing to attend appointments with his probation supervising officer, failing to live at an approved address and displaying poor behaviour.
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North Yorkshire Police said in a statement Kerr has connections across Yorkshire.
It said:
Kerr was arrested in 2017 after absconding from HMP Hollesley Bay, near Woodbridge, Suffolk.
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