Titan North West Regional Organised Crime Unit are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a man who absconded from an open prison in August 2017.

Shaun Price. who was sentenced to 64 months in prison in 2016 for burglary and harassment offences, absconded from Kirkham open prison on 27 August 2017.

Officers are now hunting for 31-year-old fugitive Shaun Price - also known as Patrick Docherty - who has not been seen since.

Price, of Picton Avenue, Runcorn, was jailed for 64 months after being convicted of burglar at Chester Crown Court on August 12, 2016.

He is described as white, around 5ft 11ins tall, of stocky build, with brown hair and brown eyes. His upper front teeth are chipped and he has a tattoo of a woman’s name on his right arm and a seven inch scar in the shape of a horse shoe on the back of his left hand.

He has connections across the North West.

Anybody with information about his whereabouts is asked to contact Lancashire Police by emailing westintelunit@lancashire.pnn.police.uk or calling 01772 614444, quoting log number 1207 of 27 August.