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Police have confirmed they arrested a missing rapist after an urgent manhunt was launched when he breached the terms of his release on licence.
Lee Michaels - who also goes by the name of Lee Beazley - was freed under licence in June last year after serving part of his sentence for drug-fuelled pensioner sex attacks.
Michaels broke into a 65-year-old woman's home in Marton, Middlesbrough in September 2005 and repeatedly raped her while high on drugs alongside a second man, named David Humphrey.
The pair, both 19 at the time of the incident, had drank a large quantity of alcohol, smoked cannabis and taken heroin substitute tablets before breaking into the pensioner's home armed with a knife and screwdriver.
But last week the 36-year-old was hunted by West Yorkshire Police after breaching the terms of his release.
A police spokesman commented: 'Lee Michaels, also known as Lee Beazley, who was publicised as being wanted on recall to
