A RAPIST from the Okehampton area who spent nearly three weeks on the run is back in jail, following his capture in Glasgow on March 30.

Eddie Braime absconded from an open prison in Lincolnshire on March 12 and was arrested by police in the Scottish city after an appeal on the BBC programme Crimewatch.

Braime, 39, was given three life sentences for a brutal attack on a woman in 1998 in which he beat her with a baseball bat. The victim was then dragged into a field at Aylesbeare near Exeter and raped twice.

Lincolnshire police involved forces across the country in the search, including Devon and Cornwall police, because it was believed that Braime was heading to Devon.

Following the national TV appeal, a number of viewers called in with sightings and Braime was arrested by Strathclyde police at a pub in Glasgow.

Lincolnshire police have confirmed that Braime had appeared in court in Glasgow on March 31 and was now back in a higher security (category B) prison.