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Enhanced prison checks to be introduced after sex offender mistakenly freed
Prisons will introduce enhanced checks before inmates are released, after a sex offender was mistakenly freed.
The new checks involve five pages of instructions and require more senior prison staff to sign off a release, according to documents obtained by Sky News. The instructions are effective from Monday and have been hurriedly introduced after migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu was released by accident on Friday, instead of being deported.
He's now back in custody and due for deportation this week. He was sentenced last month for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping.
Kebatu had been staying at an asylum hotel and committed the crimes days after he arrived in the UK on a small boat. Following this case, a duty governor is now personally responsible for carrying out an inspection of a release checklist, which is new.
Previously, it would have been for more junior Offender Management Unit (OMU) members of staff. "Part A" of the checklist, which the documents say are "to be completed the day before release by the Duty Governor.
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