A convicted murderer wanted by police after he breached his prison release conditions is back behind bars.
Christopher Paul, 45, from Caerphilly, was given a life sentence for murder at Cardiff Crown Court in September 1992. He was released on licence from Bridgend’s HMP Parc Prison in June 2016 and police issued an appeal for his return to prison on Tuesday April 10.
Police had warned members of the public not to approach Paul, but was arrested on Friday, April 13.
In 1991, Paul, then aged 20 and living in Trethomas, had gone to the house of retired art teacher Aneurin Caradog Williams.
Mr Williams, who was 63, was found in pool of blood at his house in Llanbradach on September 27, 1991. He had been tied up with an extension lead and strangled with a telephone cable.
The judge sentencing Paul described the killing of Mr Williams as “callous”.
Accomplice Jason Soal, then of Graig-y-Rhacca and aged 17 admitted the charges while Paul denied the killing.
During the trial the jury was told how he and Soal hatched a plot to rob Mr Williams at his home.
They ransacked it, tortured him and left him to die.
After killing Mr Williams, who was a council chairman, the pair took his £2,000 car and travelled to Gloucester where they spent the night. They returned to Wales the following day and spent the £45 drinking in Cwmcarn pubs.
Soal was released from prison on licence in 2004 but went on to commit a violent burglary in 2013 where he bound a mother with masking tape as her three-year daughter watched.
Paul was released on licence from Bridgend’s HMP Parc Prison in June 2016.
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