POLICE are appealing for help to find a murderer who has absconded from HMP Leyhill in South Gloucestershire.

Andrew Senior, 46, has not been seen since 4.45pm on Monday, November 16, and was reported missing after failing to report for a role check at 8.15pm.

He is described as a white man, about 6ft 2ins tall of heavy build with very short balding brown hair. He has blue eyes and a greying short cropped beard. 

It is not known what he was wearing when he disappeared.

Senior was jailed in 2004 for murder, and is known to have links with Wolverhampton and Birmingham in the West Midlands. 

Members of the public have been advised not to approach Senior should they spot him.

They are instead encouraged to call 999, quoting reference 5215042387.