Sex Offender Accidentally released, hunted by British Police

Police are continuing a manhunt for an asylum seeker who was accidentally released from prison on Friday, only weeks after being jailed for sexually assaulting a schoolgirl in Essex. Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre from HMP Chelmsford ahead of a planned deportation on Friday but Justice Secretary David Lammy said the 41-year-old is now “at large” in London. Lammy said officers from the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police (BTP) and Essex Police were working together to trace Kebatu, who was jailed for 12 months in September. Sir Keir Starmer described the release as “totally unacceptable”. The prime minister said Kebatu “must be caught and deported for his crimes”, adding that police are “working urgently to track him down”. (BBC)