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 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 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 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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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 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 Jail scandal: 40 more prisoners set to be wrongly freed before Christmas unless checks improve, says minister

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

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3 w. ago 40 more prisoners set to be wrongly freed from jail before Christmas unless checks improve, says minister

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

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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 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 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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 w. 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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3 w. 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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