A MAN who absconded from an open prison for more than five months has been tracked down.

Lucas Lamb, who walked out and failed to return to Ford Prison on Friday, September 5, last year, has been arrested.

He was arrested by officers in East Sussex this morning and has been returned to a closed prison.

Lamb, 31, had been convicted of causing GBH with intent in Hailsham in October 2012.