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Second migrant sex offender accidentally released from prison

'A second migrant sex offender has been accidentally released from prison.
An Algerian man, 24, was accidentally released from HMP Wandsworth in south London on Wednesday
last week. However, the Metropolitan Police was only informed at lunchtime on Tuesday.


Wandsworth Clink.

It is understood that he was serving time for trespass with an intent to steal but has previously committed
a sexual offence of indecent exposure. The news emerged as David Lammy, the Deputy Prime Minister,
refused to answer multiple questions from James Cartlidge, the shadow defence secretary, at Prime
Minister’s Questions on whether any other migrant had been mistakenly released.

Mr Lammy later said he was “absolutely outraged and appalled by the mistaken release of a foreign
criminal wanted by the police”, adding that his “officials have been working through the night to take
him back to prison”.


Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy.

The mistaken release of the prisoner came less than two weeks after Hadush Kebatu, the Epping migrant
sex offender, was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford instead of being transferred to an immigration
removal centre, which led to a 48 hour police manhunt. Kebatu, who was jailed for sexually assaulting a
14-year-old and another woman, was forcibly deported back to his home country of Ethiopia after being
paid £500 to drop his threat to lodge a fresh asylum claim and disrupt his removal from the UK.

The accidental release of the Algerian comes despite the introduction of tighter checks – described by
Mr Lammy as the toughest ever. The Metropolitan Police said: “Shortly after 13:00hrs on Tuesday Nov 4,
the Met was informed by the Prison Service that a prisoner had been released in error from HMP
Wandsworth on Wednesday Oct 29.

“The prisoner is a 24-year-old man of Algerian nationality. Officers are carrying out urgent inquiries in an
effort to locate the man and return him to custody.” It is not clear why the prison service did not alert police
for six days, nor whether Mr Lammy knew of the accidental release when he was asked six times at the
despatch box, where he was standing in for Sir Keir Starmer.

Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, said: “This is another shambles under Calamity Lammy’s
watch. Accidental releases of prisoners have more than doubled under this government and David Lammy
doesn’t have a clue what’s going on.

“The British people are being put in danger time and again due to the Government’s sheer incompetence.”
Downing Street tried to blame the previous Conservative government for the mistaken release of another
migrant, describing the blunder as “utterly unacceptable”. The Prime Minister’s spokesman said: “We have
been very open about the chaos that this Government has inherited.” The case would be front and centre
of a review into wrongful releases by Dame Lynne Owens, the official added...'

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