2 w. ago Who could be behind the phantom briefing and the tax rise that wasn’t? Inspector Starmer is on the case | Marina Hyde

Chaos and ineptitude dog our poor PM. Perhaps the explanation lies (very) close to homeAt this rate the only businesses who will want to invest in Britain after the budget are heroin dealers. No 10 used to have a news grid, now it has an apology grid. Even so, why did Keir Starmer apologise for a sensationally self-destructive round of briefing against Wes Streeting if he didn’t do it? This is like me apologising for accidentally releasing sex offenders from prison. I suppose there is the occasional previous example in public life. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor apologised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein and gave a woman he’d never met a reported £12m. Perhaps that provides the prime minister with the warming cover of precedent.If you’re just joining us, this is a week in which the government finally achieved the chaos spiral of several recent Conservative administrations. We can now officially say: same car, different clowns. We are less than two weeks out from the budget, wit...

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2 w. ago Justice officials accidentally release plans to spend tens of millions moving women criminals out of prison

Documents accidentally released by the Ministry of Justice outline a scheme - which would cost an initial £68million and then a further £47million a year - to 'divert' women offenders out of jail.

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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 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 Sex offender accidentally released from Wandsworth prison caught

Sex offender accidentally released from Wandsworth prison caught  MyLondon

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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 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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3 w. ago Sex offender accidentally released from prison flashed genitals at historic East London site

Sex offender accidentally released from prison flashed genitals at historic East London site  MyLondon

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3 w. ago Moment fugitive fraudster hands himself in three days after he was freed from HMP Wandsworth by mistake as hunt continues for Algerian migrant sex offender

Fraudster William 'Billy' Smith, 35, was wrongly set free from the south London jail earlier this week but reportedly handed himself in after a three-day manhunt.

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3 w. ago Wandsworth prison manhunt latest: Prisoner found three days after accidental release but another on loose

Manhunt continues for prisoner Brahim Kaddour-Cherif

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3 w. ago Fugitive convicted fraudster is FOUND three days after he was freed from HMP Wandsworth by mistake as hunt continues for Algerian migrant sex offender

Fraudster William 'Billy' Smith, 35, was wrongly set free from the south London jail earlier this week but reportedly handed himself in after a three-day manhunt.

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3 w. ago Dozens of prisoners released from Scots jails BY MISTAKE as jaw

DOZENS of prisoners have been mistakenly released from Scotland's jails in a catalogue of blunders, new figures have revealed. The Scottish Prison Service said 27 inmates had been accidentally released since 2022. Eight "liberations in error" occurred in 2022/23, while seven happened in 2023/24 and nine in 2024/25. Three inmates have been released mistakenly in...

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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. ago Labour's promise to tighten prisoner release checks after migrant sex offender scandal lies in tatters after Wandsworth releases two more criminals by mistake

Algerian immigration offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was released from HMP Wandsworth in south-west London by mistake last week and was still on the run last night.

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3 w. ago Wandsworth prison manhunt latest: Lammy was ‘not accurately informed’ about mistakenly released inmate before PMQs

Errors come just days after sex offender migrant Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford

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3 w. ago Video: Manhunt for Algerian sex offender freed from Wandsworth jail by mistake

Police have released previous arrest footage of escaped prisoner Brahim Kaddour-Cherif as the manhunt for him continues.

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3 w. ago Fury as two prisoners wrongly released from HMP Wandsworth in a week – and police weren’t told about one for six days

Anger as Metropolitan Police say they were only informed on Tuesday that migrant sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was on the run, six days after his ‘release in error’

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3 w. 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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