A migrant sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison was seen by a delivery driver “returning four or five times” to the reception, as he hung around outside for around “an hour and a half”.
Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and another woman. The former asylum seeker, who had been living at the Bell Hotel in Epping, was due to be deported, but on Friday he was released from HMP Chelmsford by error.