Murderer on the run after gaining temporary release

A CONVICTED murderer has gone on the run from the open prison at Castle Huntly, near Dundee.

Daniel Somers, 49, failed to return to the prison on Wednesday after being granted a one-week temporary release.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1978 at the High Court in Glasgow for kicking a youth to death. Somers, who is from the Priesthill area of Glasgow, was released on life licence in 1999, but he was recalled to prison and jailed for six years following a charge of assault to severe injury in October 2000.

He is described as 5ft 8in tall, of average build, with shaven brown hair and blue eyes.