Jail for on-the-run sex offender

Wright admitted serious sexual offences against a child

A sex offender from Sheffield has been jailed five months after he failed to appear for sentencing at court and went on the run.

Alan Wright, 52, pleaded guilty at Sheffield Crown Court on 11 May to four serious sexual offences involving a child under the age of 13.

He failed to turn up for sentencing on 5 June but was arrested in Sheffield on Saturday.

He was jailed for four years and six months at the crown court.

The prison term takes into account a charge of failing to appear at court, which Wright admitted.

Wright, who was granted conditional bail at the hearing in May, had been living at a bail hostel in West Yorkshire when he went missing.

Police issued a warrant for his arrest and he was featured on the "most wanted" section of the BBC's Crimewatch programme in September.