This just gets weirder. British police have arrested an asylum-seeker who was
mistakenly released from prison on Friday while serving a 12-month sentence for sexual assault following a “fast-moving and complex” manhunt.
Then he’s accidentally released to then go on and sexually assault someone else? In this case a child? Really? Am I misunderstanding this? Was this guy already in a British prison for a different sexual assault? Why was Hadush Kebatu incarcerated in Britain in the first place in order to be mistakenly released?
Then these two Ass-Hats are pussyfooting around an apology in parliament? Wow…
A lorry driver, who was delivering equipment to Chelmsford jail on Friday, told Sky News correspondent
Tom Parmenter he saw the "confused" offender outside the facility
being directed by prison staff to the city's railway station following his release.
He adds the prisoner must have been outside the prison for roughly "an hour and a half", before he finally left, adding: "They [the officers] were basically sending him away, saying, 'Go, you've been released, you go'."
Kebatu was found guilty of five offences after a three-day trial at Chelmsford and Colchester magistrates' courts in September.
His case led to protesters and counter-protesters taking to the streets in Epping, Essex, and eventually outside hotels housing asylum seekers across the country.
The incidents occurred in July, eight days after he arrived in the UK by small boat.
The Ethiopian national was due to be released in order to be immediately deported, but instead he was able to board a train to London - triggering a manhunt.
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I guess I did misunderstand this. It’s not that he was incarcerated for sexual assault, then mistakenly released and committed another sexual assault…. It’s that he committed several sexual assaults before being incarcerated the first time. I guess in a glass half full sort of way that’s sort of better???
This makes me wonder what his asylum claim was that he couldn’t be sent back to Ethiopia, which it sounds like he was anyway.
A migrant sex offender mistakenly released from prison was given a £500 payment after threatening to disrupt his deportation from the UK to Ethiopia. The payment was made by the removal team as an alternative to a slower and more expensive process, Sir Keir Starmer's spokesman said. I guess we know how he had
bus train fare when he was mistakenly released from prison.
The Ethiopian was put on a flight on Tuesday night and landed the following morning, the Home Office said. Kebatu was "forcibly deported" and accompanied by five escorts on the flight.
Kebatu arrived in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa early on Wednesday and was briefly held by officers at the airport before being released, Ethiopian police told the BBC.
There was "no legal basis for his continued detention", Ethiopian Federal Police communications head Jaylan Abde said.
Hadush Kebatu was given the money to avoid a "slower, more expensive process", Downing Street said.
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the payment was an "outrageous waste of taxpayers' money. Hadush Kebatu should have been deported immediately, not released and sent home with pocket money," she said.
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