Zimbabwe News Update
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A migrant sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison has been deported from the UK with no right to return.Hadush Kebatu was jailed after sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, Essex, while living in an asylum hotel, but was mistakenly set free by prison staff on Friday. He was brought back into custody following a two-day manhunt.Kebatu was put on a flight to Ethiopia on Tuesday night and landed the following morning, the Home Office said.Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: “Last week’s blunder should never have happened – and I share the public’s anger that it did.”
“I have pulled every lever to deport Mr Kebatu and remove him off British soil. I am pleased to confirm this vile child sex offender has been deported.
Our streets are safer because of it,” she added.Kebatu was deported with no right to return, the Home Office said.On Friday he was meant be taken from HMP Chelmsford to an immigration detention centre to be deported under an early removals scheme (ERS) for foreign national offenders.Instead, he was released in what Justice Secretary David Lammy previouslydescribed as apparent “human error”.By the time Essex Police were made aware of the situation shortly before 13:00, he had approached members of the public in the city centre for assistance and boarded a train to London.He was arrested in north London on Sunday morning aftera member of the public contacted the policeto say they might have spotted him near Finsbury Park station.
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