A PSYCHOPATH murderer who raped and killed a woman in a graveyard has been recaptured after absconding from prison.

Keith Whitehouse was on leave from a 30-month kidnapping sentence when he beat 21-year-old Suzanna Bromiley with a brick before taking her life in Brighton in 1991.

He failed to appear for a roll call at Leyhill, an open prison in Gloucestershire, on Saturday night.

But Avon and Somerset Police announced on Twitter yesterday the 56-year-old was arrested.

In the 1991 murder, Whitehouse also stabbed his victim in the head.

He met her at a day centre for the unemployed in the city while on five days’ leave from Risley prison in Warrington.

Whitehouse was known to have a psychopathic personality disorder.

Saturday was the second time he has absconded from prison.

When he killed Ms Bromiley, he had already been missing from his prison for four months.

But nobody looked for the murderer the whole time until he took Ms Bromiley’s life.

Whitehouse was jailed for life for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.