1 hour ago Five other prisoners released in error in last seven days, says union boss

The latest revelation follows incredulity after migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu was released from HMP Chelmsford by mistake

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6 h. ago Prison officer 'unfairly suspended' over asylum seeker release says union chief

Mark Fairhurst, the national chairman of the prison officers' union, said a male worker had been suspended after the accidental release of Hadush Kebatu at HMP Chelmsford on Friday

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9 h. ago Yes, Keir Starmer is Britain’s most unpopular PM ever. That could liberate him | Polly Toynbee

Forget the public vitriol and use the next four years to get things done – first and foremost, whatever it takes to stop ReformWhat hell is the life of politics. Look around that cabinet table: each person is confronted with near impossible-portfolios without the means to do what they know is needed. After another nightmare week, many in the dark watches must ask themselves why the hell they gave their lives to this brutally thankless task.Their inheritance was even more ruinous than feared: they were bequeathed landmines, dishonest traps and gaping holes. Brexit is emerging as even more economically crippling than expected, now losing the exchequer £80bn a year. They are blighted by bad luck: the Trump destroyer landed on their watch. What worse mishap than a prison officer setting free a refused asylum-seeker sex offender? Small boat arrivals feel unstoppable. An unfortunate deputy leadership election right now was bound to give Keir Starmer a bruising. The 11% vote share at the C...

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14 h. ago Asylum seeker allowed to stay in UK is jailed for trafficking Channel migrants in a gang run by his gun

Anjan Ahamdi, 26, was jailed for five years and seven months for his role in helping two migrants to illegally enter the country with people smuggling kingpin Amanj Hasan Zada, 35.

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18 h. ago Prison officer 'engaged in sex act with lag while inmates acted as lookouts'

Isabelle Dale, 23, is accused of engaging in relationships with two serving prisoners while working as a prison officer and conspiring to smuggle drugs into prison

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20 h. ago Female prison officer, 23, 'had sex with convicted robber in prison prayer room', court hears

Isabelle Dale, 23, allegedly slept with Shahid Sharif in the prayer room at HMP Coldingley in Surrey while two inmates acted as lookouts.

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21 h. ago Prison staff complain they are being 'scapegoated' after accidentally freeing Epping sex attack migrant as Lammy blames 'human error'

Mark Fairhurst, the national chair of the UK Prison Officers' Association (POA), said at least two more senior figures were also involved in the release of Hadush Kebatu.

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21 h. ago 'Human error' by a prison officer led to Epping sex offender Hadush Kebatu being wrongly freed, says Lammy

The Ethiopian asylum seeker was recaptured on Sunday after being mistakenly released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday

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22 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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26 h. ago Epping sex offender Hadush Kebatu to be flown back to Ethiopia ‘imminently’ after his jail release fiasco

Ethiopian asylum seeker was recaptured on Sunday after being wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday

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27 h. ago Glasgow operating at 400% above housing plan for asylum seekers

The figure was contained in evidence to a Westminster inquiry into asylum seeker accommodation.

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47 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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47 h. ago The sleepy Irish 'village' housing 2,300 migrants in a luxury hotel tearing itself apart after a 'failed African asylum seeker

Riots have convulsed quiet Saggart for the past two nights after the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old Irish girl by a 26-year-old African migrant due to be deported outside the Citywest hotel.

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50 h. ago Timeline of events in case of asylum seeker who was released accidentally

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was accidentally released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday.

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50 h. ago Moment sex offender asylum seeker fugitive arrested after 3 days at large

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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52 h. ago Met arrests Epping asylum seeker released from prison by accident

Force says Hadush Kebatu was detained on Sunday in Finsbury Park area of north London

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53 h. ago Epping asylum seeker released from prison FOUND and arrested in London

Epping asylum seeker released from prison FOUND and arrested in London  Thurrock Gazette

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53 h. ago Epping sex offender asylum seeker fugitive arrested after three days at large

Hadush Kebatu, 38, was sentenced to 12 months in prison just weeks ago for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and woman in Essex - but was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday

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64 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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65 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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