A MAN who escaped custody during a court hearing has been arrested for a number of violent crimes.

On July 28, Che Isaacs-Neville was convicted in his absence of two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of assault by beating, criminal damage and theft of a motor vehicle.

The 22-year-old escaped from custody and fled the courtroom during a later hearing at Chichester Crown Court on August 18.

Isaacs-Neville was subsequently arrested on October 26.

By then, he was also wanted for being unlawfully at large.

He has been remanded in custody for sentencing on December 16.