6 h. 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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8 h. ago Prisoner manhunt LIVE: Wrongly freed man hands himself back in to London jail

Surrey Police said Billy Smith handed himself into to HMP Wandsworth following his accidental release

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11 h. ago Two more prisoners on run after being released from HMP Wandsworth by mistake in fresh crisis for Labour

Police searching for Algerian sex offender freed from Wandsworth jail by mistake along with convicted fraudster – days after justice secretary claimed he’d introduced strictest-ever prison checks following Epping migrant blunder

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11 h. ago 'Oops I freed them again!' David Lammy is mocked in new AI video as police hunt Algerian migrant sex offender and British fraudster released by mistake

A manhunt is underway for Algerian national Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, who was freed from HMP Wandsworth, alongside British fraudster Billy Smith, 35.

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13 h. ago Prisoner manhunt LIVE: Search continues for migrant sex offender and fraudster wrongly released from jail

Justice Secretary under fire for staying silent during PMQs on the release of two HMP Wandsworth prisoners despite reportedly knowing about it

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24 h. ago HMP Wandsworth release ANOTHER prisoner in error: Convicted fraudster and Algerian migrant sex offender 'who gave police false address while on bail' go on the run

On Monday, British national William Smith, who goes by Billy, was released from the scandal-hit prison by accident.

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25 h. ago Two more prisoners on run after being released from jail by mistake in fresh crisis for Labour

Police searching for Algerian sex offender freed from Wandsworth jail by mistake along with convicted fraudster – days after justice secretary claimed he’d introduced strictest-ever prison checks following Epping migrant blunder

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26 h. ago David Lammy under pressure as two more prisoners mistakenly freed

Algerian sex offender and a fraudster released by Wandsworth jail, days after new checks brought in David Lammy, the UK justice secretary, is under mounting pressure after two more prisoners, including a convicted foreign sex offender, were mistakenly freed, days after he introduced stringent checks for jails.Lammy had refused multiple times to say whether any more prisoners had been released in error in a bruising session of prime minister’s questions, having been ambushed with a string of pre-planned questions on the issue. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago How TWO prisoners were wrongly released by mistake from Wandsworth jail

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif and William Smith have both been mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth, with their disappearances coming a matter of days after another high-profile escape

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26 h. ago HMP Wandsworth release ANOTHER prisoner in error: Convicted fraudster and Algerian migrant sex offender go on the run

On Monday, British national William Smith, who goes by Billy, was released from the scandal-hit prison by accident.

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27 h. ago Prisoner manhunt LIVE: Migrant sex offender and fraudster both on run from HMP Wandsworth after being wrongly released

Fury over why police were only alerted to luanch manhunt six days after migrant sex offender was wrongly released last week

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27 h. ago HMP Wandsworth have released ANOTHER prisoner in error: Convicted fraudster is SECOND inmate to be wrongly freed within a week after Algerian migrant sex offender

On Monday, British national William Smith, who goes by Billy, was released from the scandal-hit prison by accident.

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27 h. ago Manhunt after Algerian man mistakenly released from London’s Wandsworth prison

Manhunt after Algerian man mistakenly released from London’s Wandsworth prison - live updates  BBC

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28 h. ago Prisoner manhunt LIVE: Algerian sex offender wrongly released from HMP Wandsworth a week ago named

Fury over why police were only alerted six days after the prsioner was wrongly released last week

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29 h. ago Prisoner manhunt LIVE: Met police 'urgently' seeking Algerian man wrongly released from HMP Wandsworth a week ago

A manhunt is under way in London after another foreign prisoner was mistakenly released from jail.

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5 d. ago Ministers were warned that jail which wrongly freed Ethiopian sex attack migrant had 'litany of issues and errors' over prisoner release

The error at HMP Chelmsford, in Essex, saw Hadush Kebatu freed when he should have been handed to immigration officers.

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9 d. ago Migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu is second person to be freed by mistake from HMP Chelmsford

The prison staff at HMP fell for a fake email posing from the Royal Courts of Justice

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1 week ago Prison which accidentally freed sex offender was duped by fake 'get out of jail free' letter

HMP Chelmsford, which recently accidentally released a sex offender, also saw a fraudster manage to dodge jail time in 2023, before one mistake managed to expose his lies

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1 week 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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