An inmate who went on the run from an open prison is back in jail after being caught by police.

An inmate who went on the run from an open prison is back in jail after being caught by police.

Simon Lister, a 28-year-old inmate at the open prison in Noranside, Angus, absconded on Wednesday.

He was found on Saturday in the Penicuik area, Lothian and Borders Police said.

Lister, a former soldier, was given a seven-year jail term at the High Court in Edinburgh in 2004 after being convicted of a series of assaults and robberies on pensioners.

He failed to return to Noranside from a period of home leave, which he was granted on July 9.

A report of the circumstances will be made to the procurator-fiscal.

Lister was one of three prisoners who absconded from open jails in Tayside on Wednesday.

John Cartledge, 41, and Dennis Smyth, 39, absconded from the Castle Huntly facility near Dundee the same day.

Cartledge - who was jailed for eight years in 2004 after admitting assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement and the danger of life - was tracked down on Friday while Smyth is still at large.

All three convicts had been on periods of home leave when they absconded.

Their failure to return has led to calls for a review of the home leave system the Scottish Prison Service operates.