A murderer has absconded from a Sussex prison.
Raymond Joseph Reilly, 33, failed to appear for a roll call at 9pm yesterday at Ford Open Prison, near Littlehampton.
Police were alerted and a search was launched.
Reilly was 17 when he was jailed at Her Majesty's pleasure at Manchester Crown Court in 1985 for battering a disabled man to death with an iron bar.
His victim, 32-year-old Edward Marchelewicz, disturbed Reilly and an accomplice when they burgled his home in Rochdale in 1984.
The victim suffered 16 blows to the head and face.
A Home Office spokesman said an absconder from an open prison would be automatically returned to a closed prison on capture.
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