Fury as two prisoners wrongly released from HMP Wandsworth in a week – and police weren’t told about one for six days

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Two prisoners are on the run after being wrongly released from HMP Wandsworth in south-west London.

Convicted Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was wrongly released on October 29 - but police weren’t notified until six days later, while in another major blunder Billy Smith, 35, was released on Monday, the same day he was jailed for fraud.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called it “a total farce” that “another dangerous criminal is on the loose thanks to Labour while Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called the situation “a shambles”