Police believe he boarded the 13:43 BST train from Ipswich towards London on Wednesday.
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A former law lecturer and convicted sex offender who went on the run from court had been planning to flee to eastern Europe, police have said. British Transport Police met the train at Liverpool Street and found no trace of him.
He was identified as travelling on a ferry from Holyhead to Dublin at lunchtime yesterday. They also liaised closely with suffolk police and the National Crime Agency.
Today, a spokesman for the force said that Myerscough, originally from Manchester but living in Lowestoft, Suffolk, had been detained under a European Arrest Warrant by Garda officers in Dublin.
Myerscough was convicted of making and possessing indecent images of children in 2010 and received a 15 month sentence.
All three items were found to have sick images of children, mainly in the form of videos, said Mr Brown. The images and films included boys and girls aged eight to 14 being sexually abused by other children and adults. He would have travelled to Budapest, Hungary that afternoon had he not been apprehended by gardaí.
Detective Inspector Paul O’Brien from the Sex Offender Management and Intelligence Unit of the Garda National Protective Services Bureau said: “This is an example of close co- operation between the Irish and United Kingdom authorities”.
Mian Shahid was arrested after gardai launched a media appeal.
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Ipswich Crown Court judge, Emma Peters, issued a warrant for 55-year-old Myerscough’s arrest as soon as it became apparent he had disappeared and took the jury’s verdicts in his absence.
