37 h. 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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44 h. 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HM Prison service insiders say an 'outdated' and 'unfit for purpose' system called NOMIS is fuelling the rise in accidental releases of prisoners across the UK after a string of high-profile blunders

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45 h. ago Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison arrested

Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison arrested  BBC

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45 h. 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 d. ago Manhunt continues in U.K. for registered sex offender mistakenly released from London prison

Manhunt continues in U.K. for registered sex offender mistakenly released from London prison  CBS News

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3 d. 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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3 d. ago Manhunt for migrant sex offender after mistaken release from HMP Wandsworth

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7 d. ago Ministers were warned of errors at jail that released sex offender by mistake

Chaotic release procedures at HMP Chelmsford were flagged to the prisons minister last yearMinisters were warned by a watchdog that prisoners were “falling through the cracks” of chaotic release procedures at the jail that mistakenly freed a convicted child sex offender.An annual report on HMP Chelmsford uncovered “a litany of issues and errors” including “a mix-up of release dates” when letting out a vulnerable prisoner. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Epping sex offender given £500 after threatening to challenge deportation

Hadush Kebatu claims he tried to hand himself in to police, but was ignored, after being released from prison in errorUK politics live –latest updatesA convicted child sex offender mistakenly released from prison after arriving in the UK in a small boat was given £500 of public money as he was deported back to Ethiopia.Hadush Kebatu was flown back to his home country on Tuesday night with the discretionary payment after raising the possibility of challenging his removal shortly before he was due to be placed on a plane. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Wrongly released migrant sex offender claims he tried to hand himself in to police

A migrant sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison claims that he tried to hand himself in to police.

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1 week ago The prison crisis that led to mistaken release of migrant sex offender

The incident exposes the staffing pressures at the heart of Britain’s prison crisis

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1 week ago Epping migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu mistakenly released from prison deported to Ethiopia

A huge manhunt was carried out for Hadush Kebatu who was wrongly freed from prison instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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1 week ago Independent inquiry to be launched into how sex offender was mistakenly set free, says Lammy

Justice secretary David Lammy pledged that release checks on foreign inmates would be tightened

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1 week ago David Lammy hits out at ‘brass neck’ of Robert Jenrick over mistakenly freed migrant sex offender comments

David Lammy has accused Robert Jenrick of having a “brass neck” over comments made about a mistakenly released migrant sex offender.

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1 week ago 'Calamity Lammy' comes under fire in the Commons: Deputy PM scrambles to set up independent probe into mistaken release of Epping sex offender as he faces pressure from MPs over Hadush Kebatu case

David Lammy, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, came under fire from MPs after he revealed that 'human error' appeared to be to blame for the blunder.

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1 week ago 'Livid' David Lammy orders probe into mistaken release of Epping sex offender

Hadush Kebatu was arrested on Sunday following a two-day manhunt after he was wrongly released from HMP Chelmsford instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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1 week ago Migrant sex offender mistakenly freed from prison to be deported ‘imminently’

Downing Street has insisted that Hadush Kebatu will be deported ‘imminently’ as Justice Secretary David Lammy is set to face MPs.

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1 week ago Moment mistakenly freed migrant sex offender arrested by police in north London park

The moment a migrant sex offender accidentally released from prison was arrested in a north London park following a two-day manhunt was caught on camera by a passerby.

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1 week ago Government to address nation at 3.30pm as Labour 'have serious questions to answer'

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy is set to address the nation at 3.30pm today after the mistaken release of the Epping Hotel sex offender, who has recently been re-arrested

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1 week 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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