Police ‘urgently’ looking for prisoner freed by mistake in London
by Pippa Crerar, Peter Walker and Rajeev Syal from World news | The Guardian on (#718GJ)
Algerian man, 24, released in error' from HMP Wandsworth two days after stronger checks for jails were brought in
Police have launched an urgent search for a second foreign prisoner freed mistakenly, two days after the UK justice secretary, David Lammy, brought in stronger checks for jails.
The 24-year-old Algerian man was wrongly released from Wandsworth prison in south London last Wednesday, with the Metropolitan police informed only this week.
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