after an anonymous tip-off led cops to his hiding place.

And last night Jamal Nesbitt -- on the loose since the early hours of Wednesday -- was being quizzed by detectives over a series of crimes which have taken place since he escaped.

Nesbitt, understood to be 15, was nabbed at a disused building in Aeolia Drive, off Palmetto Road in Devonshire yesterday afternoon. A Police spokesman said he had been taken to Hamilton Police Station where he will be detained, pending further inquiries.