Vic escapee arrested

Police have arrested a sex offender who escaped from a Victorian facility.

28-year-old Victorian prison escapee Sean Andrew Carmody-Coyle

A sex offender who escaped from a Victorian facility for a second time has been arrested. (AAP)

A sex offender who escaped from a Victorian facility for a second time has been arrested at a bus stop.

Sean Carmody-Coyle, 28, was caught at a bus stop in Ararat, southwest Victoria, just after 9am (AEDT) Saturday, police said.

He is expected to be charged with breaching his supervision order.

Carmody-Coyle was wearing two ankle bracelets designed to track his every movement.

Police say an alarm was triggered when he fled Corella Place overnight on Friday.

Corella Place, near Ararat, is a transitional facility for sex offenders who have completed their prison sentences.

Carmody-Coyle had been serving the second of a five-year court supervision order which dictated he live at the facility and adhere to a curfew.

He fled the facility last year but was found in a nearby paddock the next day.


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