Duchess of York's missing personal assistant found

London: The former royal aide and convicted murderer, Jane Andrews, who escaped from an open prison in Kent during the weekend, was Wednesday found safe and well  was back in custody, police said.

Andrews, who was the Duchess of York's personal assistant for nine years, absconded from the East Sutton Park open prison in Maidstone, Kent, on Sunday.

Police gave few details about how the 42 year old had been found. A spokesperson for Kent police said: "Police have located missing person Jane Andrews safe and well and she has been taken into police custody. She was found in the Maidstone area in the early hours of this morning."

Jailed for life

Andrews, who worked for the Duchess of York for nine years until 1997, was jailed for life in 2001 for murdering her boyfriend, Thomas Cressman at the house they shared in Fulham, south-west London. She was ordered to serve a minimum of 12 years in jail.

Andrews was moved to an open prison in Yorkshire in July and transferred to East Sutton Park on November 18. Described by police as "vulnerable", she made an apparent suicide attempt last week, for which she needed hospital treatment.

In 2001, the Old Bailey heard that the 42 year old hit Cressman across the head with a cricket bat and stabbed him through the chest with a kitchen knife.