A murderer who is serving a life sentence was reported missing from an east Suffolk prison yesterday.

Police were appealing for help to locate the prisoner who absconded from Hollesley Bay prison, near Woodbridge.

Daniel Barker, aged 34, was reported missing on Thursday morning after he was absent at a roll call at the open prison.

Barker was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 for murder.

Police have now confirmed the 34-year-old handed himself in to Ipswich police on Thursday night and was taken to Martlesham police station, where he remains.