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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ben Mitchell

Asylum seeker tried to return to prison ‘several times’ after release in error

An asylum seeker who was mistakenly released from prison returned in a “very confused state” several times in a 90-minute period before staff sent him away to a railway station.

Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Epping and was freed from HMP Chelmsford instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre.

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