According to Sky News, the 41-year-old was released from Chelmsford Men's Prison in Essex, England. From there he was to be transported to a deportation center for migrants.
The police reported that in the afternoon, she received information from the prison services about a mistake and the release of one of the prisoners. Investigators determined that the man boarded a train to London at Chelmsford railway station.
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Starmer described the mistaken release of a convict as “totally unacceptable”. He said yes “horrified by what happened”. At the same time, he assured that “the police are working diligently to locate the man, with the support of the government.”
A wave of criticism after a mistake by the British services
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister David Lammy wrote in a post on Channel X that the convict “must be deported for his crimes and not remain on our streets.”
Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch from the Conservative Party commented on the event, stating that “the whole system is collapsing under the Labor government”. “This man has just been sentenced. The level of incompetence is beyond human understanding,” she wrote on a social networking site.
The head of the right-wing populist Reform UK party, Nigel Farage, announced that the wanted man “is now walking the streets of Essex. Britain is broken.”
The BBC reported that The prison service initiated an investigation into the case, and one of the officers was removed from his duties for its duration.
On September 23, a court sentenced an asylum seeker staying in a hotel in Epping to one year in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. By decision of the court, the man was entered into the register of sex offenders for a period of 10 years.
The incident involving an Ethiopian citizen sparked a wave of anti-immigration protests across the UK.
