20 h. ago Prisons crisis means serious criminals will be mistakenly released again, experts warn

Errors such as accidental release of Hadush Kebatu, who was imprisoned for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, are symptomatic of ‘chaos’ in criminal justice system

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21 h. ago Prison custody manager ‘scapegoated’ over bungled release of Hadush Kebatu, union claims

Mistakes happen all the time amid jails chaos, warns chief inspector of prisons

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24 h. ago Mistakes in prisoner releases ‘symptom of system chaos’, warns chief inspector

Charlie Taylor raised concerns over the systemic problem going on in prisons that needs to be fixed by prison service leaders.

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26 h. ago Prisons to carry out extra checks after migrant sex offender released in error

According to a report from His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service, 262 prisoners across Wales and England were mistakenly released between April 2024 and March 2025, a significant increase from the 115 cases reported in the previous year

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28 h. ago David Lammy to be grilled by MPs over Epping sex offender's mistaken release from prison as Tories demand probe into Channel migrant crimes

The Justice Secretary, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, is due to appear before MPs in Parliament this afternoon following the blunder.

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46 h. ago UK Migrant Sex Offender Mistakenly Released By London Prison Staff, Re

UK Migrant Sex Offender Mistakenly Released By London Prison Staff, Re-Arrested  News18

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46 h. ago Epping migrant sex offender 'wasn’t trying to get away' as he was arrested in London park, eyewitness says

Epping migrant sex offender 'wasn’t trying to get away' as he was arrested in London park, eyewitness says  BBCMoment migrant sex offender arrested in London park  BBCBritish police search London for asylum-seeker mistakenly released from prison  NBC News

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46 h. ago Mistakenly freeing prisoners ‘more common because of changes to release’

The chief inspector of prisons’ comments come after it emerged that sex offender Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday.

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51 h. ago Migrant sex offender mistakenly released from prison arrested

Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was arrested in the Finsbury Park area of London on Sunday morning.

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51 h. ago Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Epping sex offender arrested in north London after mistaken prison release

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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51 h. ago Sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison is arrested after 3 days

Hadush Kebatu, 38, was sentenced to 12 months in jail just weeks ago for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and woman in Essex.

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51 h. ago Epping migrant sex offender mistakenly released from prison arrested in London

Epping migrant sex offender mistakenly released from prison arrested in London  BBC

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52 h. ago Migrant sex offender mistakenly released from prison is arrested in London

Officers made the arrest this morning

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52 h. ago Police arrest sex offender accidentally released from jail after three day manhunt

The sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison has been found after a huge three day manhunt was launched to locate the criminal, named Hadush Kebatu

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62 h. ago Search for asylum seeker mistakenly released from prison enters third day

The Metropolitan Police has revealed the last sighting of Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was in Hackney, London, on Friday.

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64 h. ago Asylum seeker released by mistake tried to return to prison 'several times'

Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu remains at large

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64 h. ago Sex attack migrant spotted with avocado bag – after he ‘tried to return to prison 5 times but was turned away by guards’

THE sex offender migrant mistakenly released from jail was last spotted donning his prison tracksuit and carrying an avocado and egg bag. It comes after it was revealed Hadush Kebatu, 41, tried to go back to his prison four or five times as he stood outside for 90 minutes asking for help. Shocking new CCTV showed...

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67 h. ago NIGEL FARAGE: The mistaken release from prison of an illegal migrant jailed for sexually assaulting a 14

If you want to know what Reform UK mean when we say Britain is broken, just look at the case of Hadush Kebatu. The illegal migrant from Ethiopia sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in Epping, Essex.

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68 h. ago Prison mistakenly released migrant sex offender despite him ‘returning four or five times to reception’

Hadush Kebatu kept asking prison staff ‘what to do’ after he was released from HMP Chelmsford by error, according to a delivery driver who saw him at the time of his release

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3 d. ago Police issue update on prisoner 'freed by mistake' after 'appalling decision'

As the manhunt for Hadush Kubatu continues after he was mistakenly released from prison on Friday, police have issued an update and have urged the public to get in touch

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