A former law lecturer who went on the run from a court in England in 2015 before being found guilty of downloading indecent images of children has been arrested in Romania.
Julian Myerscough, 56, who taught criminal law at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, fled from his trial at Ipswich crown court while jurors were deliberating their verdicts.
He was convicted of 13 counts of possession of indecent images of a child and three counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).
Last September, Myerscough was sentenced in absentia at Chelmsford crown court to three and a half years in prison and given an SHPO.
He was detained by law enforcement officers in Arad county, west Romania, on 26 July, Suffolk police said.
His extradition was approved by the Timisoara court of appeal on Tuesday and arrangements were being made for British officers to travel to Bucharest and return him to the UK, the force added.
Myerscough, who was originally from Bolton but was living in Lowestoft, Suffolk, initially fled to Ireland. He was spotted on a ferry from Holyhead and was detained at a hotel in the centre of Dublin by gardaí under a European arrest warrant in October 2015, two days after fleeing.
But extradition efforts were thwarted by a series of appeals over two years. The high court in Dublin ordered that Myerscough be released from prison, ruling that too much time had passed.
