POLICE are hunting for a convicted killer with links to Bradford who is wanted on recall to prison.

Lancashire Police said Jacqueline Chesson, 64, is missing from Preston and also wanted for prison recall.

She has links to South Shields and Bradford, officers said.

A Lancashire Police spokesperson said: "If people see her, we would advise them to ring 999 rather than choose to approach her."

As reported by the Telegraph & Argus in 2016, Chesson was jailed for life back in 2005 after she stabbed her husband to death.

She was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 11 years.

In May 2016, she was allowed out of Drake Hall Prison in Staffordshire for an overnight stay at a hostel in Leeds.

Chesson, then 56, arrived at the hostel, but then "absented herself" and was not found until she walked into Bradford Royal Infirmary six days later complaining of chest pains.

Prosecutor John Bull told Bradford Crown Court that Chesson, who had two convictions for wounding with a knife as well as the fatal stabbing, confessed to staff that she had "absconded from prison".

When police arrived at the hospital, they searched her bag and found a kitchen knife with a four-inch blade inside it.

Chesson, who said she had been sleeping rough since leaving the hostel, couldn't explain how the knife got into her bag or where it had come from.

Jailing Chesson for 12 months, Judge Colin Burn said her history and the circumstances of the incident meant a custodial sentence was absolutely inevitable.

He said the public would be "terrified" at the prospect of someone like Chesson having a knife in their possession in a public hospital.

He said the 12-month sentence would have to be considered when the Parole Board considered whether it was safe to release her.

Immediate sightings should be reported to Lancashire Police on 999.

Anyone with any other information about her whereabouts should contact Lancashire Police on 101, quoting log 0984 of June 11.