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Wrongly-released migrant 'tried to return to prison 4 or 5 times', witness says
Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly released due to a prison staff error and attempted to reenter HMP Chelmsford multiple times before a nationwide manhunt commenced.
- On Friday, Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, jailed for 12 months, made several train journeys across London and was last seen at Stratford station, prompting the Metropolitan Police to launch a manhunt.
- Prison records show staff miscategorised Kebatu, handed him a £76 discharge grant, and directed him to Chelmsford station to catch a train to London, prompting his accidental release on Friday.
- A delivery driver, Sim, said Kebatu returned to prison reception four or five times and waited outside for an hour and a half, appearing confused as he kept asking, `Where do I go, where do I go?`
- A prison officer has been taken off duties while the Prison Service works with police to return the offender to custody, amid protests in Epping and calls for a public inquiry from Marie Goldman, Liberal Democrat MP for Chelmsford.
- Related investigations uncovered a wider systemic issue after Prison Service data show 262 prisoners were released in error in the year to March, with Detective Chief Inspector Rob Huddleston describing the operation as a sophisticated scheme involving Ahmed and Nazash Akhtar.
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The Independent (US)Prison released migrant sex offender despite him ‘returning four or five times’
Hadush Kebatu kept asking prison staff ‘what to do’ after he was released from HMP Chelmsford by error, according to a delivery driver who saw him at the time of his release
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