The Ethiopian asylum seeker was recaptured on Sunday after being mistakenly released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday

Met Police lead London hunt for Epping hotel sex assault convict freed in error - Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention cent

The Sun first reported on Friday that Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre to be deported, but was freed by mistake. He was wrongly categorised as a prisoner due to be released on licence and handed a £76 discharge grant, the Telegraph reported.

The same prison responsible for mistakenly releasing a migrant sex offender last week was also conned into freeing a fraudster two years ago. An email disguised to look like Royal Courts of Justice correspondence was sent in June 2023 to HMP Chelmsford instructing the prison to releasing convicted fraudster Junead Ahmed on bail.

An asylum seeker who was accidentally released while serving a sentence for sexual offences could be deported from the UK as early as today. Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday - sparking a manhunt - with the Metropolitan Police arresting him in Finsbury Park on Sunday.

Kebatu was set free weeks after being jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, Essex, while staying in a hotel.

The prison officers’ union has questioned why one employee was “unjustly” suspended after an asylum-seeker who sexually assaulted a teenage girl. And th

Hadush Kebatu, jailed in September for a year for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning, instead of an immigration detention centre.