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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Matt Watts and Nicholas Cecil

Epping sex offender Hadush Kebatu was given £500 to 'stop him disrupting flight to avoid deportation'

Epping migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu was forcibly deported to Ethiopia and given a £500 payment after threatening to disrupt his removal, says Downing Street.

Kebatu was deported by the Home Office from the UK to Ethiopia on Tuesday evening with no right to return.

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