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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Jailed criminal suspects accidentally set free on bail thanks for court blunders

Defendants have been accidentally set free on bail instead of being held in prison due to courtroom blunders dubbed a “series of unfortunate errors”.

The incidents were revealed in a memo to officials at magistrates courts acrossEngland and Wales, in a bid to stamp out the problem.

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