London police arrest asylum seeker sex offender who was mistakenly freed

South China Morning PostCenterEN 1 min read 100% complete by Agence France-PresseOctober 26, 2025 at 05:36 PM

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London's Metropolitan Police arrested Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian asylum seeker and convicted sex offender, on Sunday morning after he was mistakenly released from prison two days prior. The 38-year-old had served a month of his one-year sentence for sexually assaulting a teenage girl and a woman when the Prison Service error occurred on Friday. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that Kebatu would be deported and called for an investigation into the incident. Kebatu's case earlier this year in Epping, northeast of London, had sparked anti-immigration protests across England. Police received information about his whereabouts at a bus stop in Finsbury Park and arrested him for being "unlawfully at large."

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