2 w. ago David Lammy under new pressure after prisoner wrongly freed from jail commits NEW crime, as Tories warn 'public are being put at risk'

The unnamed 34-year-old offender was let out of jail by mistake on Monday last week and later arrested for stalking a woman.

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2 w. ago More than 2,600 prison staff ‘facing deportation’ under new visa rules

Justice Secretary David Lammy already under pressure after prisoner release fiasco at HMP Wandsworth

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2 w. ago Over 90 prisoners mistakenly released from prison within last seven months, MOJ confirm

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2 w. ago Government to make major statement to the UK today as pressure mounts

Justice Secretary David Lammy will face questions from MPs later today as pressure mounts over prisoners freed in error, while the BBC chaos will also take centre stage

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2 w. ago AI chatbot is Government's new recruit at HMP Wandsworth to stop inmates being wrongly freed

Prisons minister Lord Timpson said the southwest London jail had been given the ‘green light’ to use artificial intelligence

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3 w. ago 'We know it's you, you have a wonky nose!' Police recapture migrant sex offender freed in jail blunder after FIFTY officers deployed 'to save David Lammy's blushes'

Scotland Yard pulled officers off other jobs fighting crime in London, deploying 'significant resources' to find Brahim Kaddour-Cherif.

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3 w. ago Sex offender mistakenly let out of prison arrested after being spotted by member of public

A police officer told Brahim Kaddour-Cherif that he had a ‘very distinctive wonky nose’ after the 24-year-old claimed he was somebody else during his arrest

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3 w. ago Wrongly freed Algerian migrant sex offender slams UK justice, tells cops 'do your job' and shouts 'it's not my fault I was released' in extraordinary tirade as he is re

Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, has been rearrested after being accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth over a week ago.

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3 w. ago Prison staff 'identify issue causing mistaken releases' as sex offender arrested

HM Prison service insiders say an 'outdated' and 'unfit for purpose' system called NOMIS is fuelling the rise in accidental releases of prisoners across the UK after a string of high-profile blunders

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3 w. ago Inmate mistakenly released from London prison arrested after more than a week of freedom

Inmate mistakenly released from London prison arrested after more than a week of freedom  abcnews.go.com

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3 w. ago Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison arrested

Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison arrested  BBC

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3 w. ago Algerian sex offender released by mistake from Wandsworth prison arrested

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was arrested in Islington after a huge police manhunt

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3 w. ago Sex offender mistakenly let out of prison rearrested after being spotted by member of public

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was serving a sentence at HMP Wandsworth in south-west London

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3 w. ago Police arrest Algerian migrant sex offender who was released from prison by mistake

Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, has been rearrested after being accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth over a week ago.

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3 w. ago David Lammy under growing pressure as new manhunt launched for foreign offender who strolled out of prison

Ola Abimbola, who is 21-year sentence for offences including kidnap, grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon in public, is being hunted by Sussex Police

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3 w. ago More pressure on David Lammy as it's revealed a record 90 violent or sex offenders were freed from prison by mistake in past year

The number of bungled releases mark the highest on record, and eight times the figure from the year before, when 11 were freed in error.

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3 w. ago Mistakenly released prisoner hands himself in as Lammy faces fresh pressure over handling of fiasco

William ‘Billy’ Smith, 35, returned to Wandsworth prison after being mistakenly released on Monday

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3 w. ago Sex offender freed to fight in Ukraine shot after 'killing homeowner and raping wife'

Alexey Kostrikin had been hailed as a "war hero" in Russia, but soon deserted the frontline and resorted to a campaign of murder and rape against citizens of his own country

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3 w. ago Lammy admits 'mountain to climb' on prisons crisis as 40 more inmates may be wrongly freed before Christmas

Pressure is increasing on the Justice Secretary David Lammy over his handling of the blunders

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3 w. ago Who are the prisoners mistakenly released from Wandsworth Prison?

Police are continuing the search for a migrant sex offender who was wrongly freed from jail

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