In the migrant deportation scandal UK 2025, convicted sex offender Hadush Kebatu pocketed £500 ($768) from taxpayers to ensure his unobstructed flight back to Ethiopia, capping a Home Office blunder that exposed glaring systemic flaws. Mistakenly released from HMP Chelmsford on 24 October 2025 despite a deportation order, the Ethiopian sparked a frantic two-day manhunt after assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping's asylum hotel.
As sex offender payout UK controversies rage, politicians from Kemi Badenoch to Shabana Mahmood clash over foreign criminal removal costs, while Epping residents reel from deportation scheme failures and taxpayer money waste.
