AN escaped convicted murderer has been found on an Edinburgh bus after a cross-country manhunt.
Officers in Edinburgh located convicted prisoner, Raymond McCourt, who was reported missing on Tuesday, after he failed to return to HMP Castle Huntly.
The 59-year-old man was detained by officers in London Road this morning and will be returned to prison.
Police Scotland said: "Thank you to everyone who assisted us and to those members of the public who contacted us with information."
McCourt had been said to use public transport as he has connections to Glasgow and Edinburgh.
He was jailed for life in 1993 for murdering a newsagent. He had shot Cambuslang shopkeeper Khalid Mahmood in the head, killing him, before attempting to rob a nearby bakery.
The then 27-year-old also shot local woman Moira Rooney and PC Brian Williams.
An eyewitness has told media that McCourt was "surrounded" by six officers before being requested to leave the number five bus.
It is understood he boarded the bus in the Abbeyhill area minutes earlier.
Passengers reported he had been searched by officers before the bus was allowed to move on.
