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A timeline of Epping sex offender’s arrival in the UK to his rearrest after prison error

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was accidentally released from prison instead of being sent to immigration detention

The Guardian - UK

Epping migrant sex offender to be ‘deported’ this week as victim’s father says mistaken release caused ‘so much stress and anxiety’

Kebatu was arrested on Seven Sisters Road at around 8.30am on Sunday

Evening Standard

Epping sex offender back in custody after release from prison in error

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, whose case led to summer protests in Essex, detained again and faces deportation

The Guardian - UK

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In just 117 days ‘repulsive’ asylum seeker has sparked national anger and crises

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was convicted of the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl eight days after arriving in the UK.

Evening Standard

Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Epping sex offender arrested in north London after mistaken prison release

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

Evening Standard

Hadush Kebatu manhunt live: Met Police issue update after mistakenly released sex offender ‘takes trains across London’

Metropolitan Police make direct appeal to Hadush Kebatu to hand himself in

The Independent UK

What we know about Epping hotel migrant who was mistakenly freed from prison

Hadush Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre to be deported, but was mistakenly released

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Epping hotel migrant accidentally freed from prison is ‘at large in London’, warns Lammy

Epping hotel migrant Hadush Kebatu who was accidentally freed from prison is “at large in London”, deputy prime minister David Lammy has said.

The Independent UK

Asylum seeker freed in error from prison seen taking train to London

Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu had been jailed for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.

Evening Standard

Epping hotel asylum seeker jailed for sexual assault freed by mistake

The Sun first reported on Friday that he was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre to be deported but was freed by mistake.

Evening Standard

Manhunt after Epping hotel migrant who sexually assaulted girl accidentally released from prison

David Lammy ‘livid’ that Hadush Kebatu ‘is at large tonight’ as manhunt launched

The Independent UK

London manhunt underway after Epping asylum seeker jailed for girl’s assault mistakenly released

Police are hunting Hadush Kebatu, 41, whose sex attacks sparked nationwide protests outside migrant hotels after ‘mother of all f***-ups’ saw his release

Evening Standard

Council faces wait to discover outcome of asylum seeker hotel injunction bid

Epping Forest District Council is taking legal action against Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping.

Evening Standard

Fourth man jailed for violent disorder outside hotel housing asylum seekers

Police said the 28-year-old acted in an ‘intimidating way, encouraging other people there to face off against our officers’.

Evening Standard

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Essex asylum seeker hotel in ‘flagrant’ breach of planning laws, court told

Epping Forest District Council is taking legal action against Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping.

The Independent UK

Charges dropped against woman who unfurled Union flag during migrant hotel protest

Essex Police said Sarah White, of Chigwell, was arrested on suspicion of two offences

Evening Standard

Woman who unfurled union flag from east London council building has charges against her dropped

Sarah White, 40, was arrested for public order offences after a migrant protest in August

Evening Standard

Council’s bid to block asylum seekers being housed in Bell Hotel to be heard

Epping Forest District Council is taking legal action against Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping, and the Home Office.

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Evening Standard

Three men jailed for violent disorder outside Epping migrant hotel this summer

Several protests were held outside the Bell Hotel after an asylum seeker sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman

The Independent UK

Asylum hotel attacker wants to return to Syria after Epping assaults

Mohammed Sharwarq, who fled civil war in 2011, is jailed for 16 weeks

Evening Standard

Migrant who assaulted four people at asylum hotel ‘wants to return to Syria’

Mohammed Sharwarq was a resident at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, at the time of the offences in July and August of this year.

Evening Standard

Epping protester who refused to uncover face argued people can ‘wear burkas’

Joshua Meadows, 18, refused to remove the covering when asked to do so by police during a protest in the Essex town on July 24, the court heard.

Euronews

Asylum seeker jailed for sex attacks that sparked UK anti-migrant protests

Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was found guilty of assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, a town near London.

Evening Standard

Epping hotel asylum seeker to be deported after being jailed for sexual assaults

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, sentenced for attacks on woman and girl, 14, days after arrival in UK on small boat

The Independent UK

‘Manipulative’ asylum seeker at centre of Epping hotel protests jailed for sexually assaulting girl

A judge said Hadush Kebatu posed a ‘significant risk of reoffending’ after his offences sparked protests outside asylum hotels across the UK

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