Sex offender who sparked UK asylum hotel protests released by mistake
David Lammy said to be furious after Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, who was meant to go to an immigration detention centre to be deported, was accidentally freed
A former asylum seeker who sparked nationwide protests after sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl near an asylum hotel in Epping has been accidentally released from prison, sparking a police manhunt.
The Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for sexual assault and made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order.