Met police take over search for Epping sex offender after London sighting – as it happened
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The accidental release of the asylum seeker was a “mind-blowing” blunder, says the MP for Chelmsford.
The Liberal Democrat MP Marie Goldman said on Saturday: “My mind has blown. How this could possibly happen?”
He came out of the airlock, and kept saying to the officers there, ‘Where am I going? What am I doing? I don’t know where I’m going and what I’m doing.’
He was holding a pack of paperwork in his arms, and his bag of bits …
He knew he’d been deported. He came over to me and said, ‘I need you to help me.’