Live: David Lammy Gives Statement on Wrongly Released Asylum Seeker

Live: David Lammy Gives Statement on Wrongly Released Asylum Seeker – about 3:30pm

David Lammy, the Justice Secretary, makes a statement at the House of Commons on Hadush Kebatu. He’s a migrant sex offender whose offences led to weeks of protests and mistakenly released from prison. The migrant sex offender to be deported this week following his arrest after a two-day manhunt. Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian citizen, was arrested in Finsbury Park, north London, at about 8.30am on Sunday after a member of the public reported seeing him at a nearby bus stop.

The Prison Officers’ Union questions why a single member of staff at HMP Chelmsford “unjustly” targeted. This after the mistaken release of a refused asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a teenage girl.

Mark Fairhurst, the national chair of the POA, said that the member, a discharging manager, the only person under suspension when at least two other more senior staff involved in freeing Hadush Kebatu.

The Ethiopian national let go and ushered away by staff from HMP Chelmsford.

MPs respond to the statement.