Epping Migrant Sex Offender Accidentally Released From Prison

A police manhunt has been launched after the Epping Hotel asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a woman and a 14 year-old girl was accidentally released from jail due to “human error”. The Telegraph has the story.

Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu, 38, was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre to be deported but was mistakenly released from HMP Chelmsford where he was being held.

Prison service sources said it appeared to have been “human error” and that officers had wrongly authorised the release when Kebatu should have been taken to the detention centre for deportation.

Kebatu, who arrived in the UK on a small boat, was sentenced to 12 months in prison.

His crimes sparked protests and counter-demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, where he had been living as an asylum seeker.

In a personal statement to the court, his 14 year-old victim said she now feels “vulnerable and exposed” when wearing a skirt as a result of the assault.

David Lammy, the Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, is said to be furious and has ordered an investigation, according to a Government source.

Mr Lammy is also supporting police efforts to find Kebatu.

A prison service source said: “It is down to human error. It appears the wrong form was filled out or something similar. There is an investigation to get to the bottom of it.” …

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: “The Epping hotel migrant sex attacker has been accidentally freed rather than deported. He is now walking the streets of Essex. Britain is broken.”

Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Secretary, said: “The case of Hadush Kebatu is a parable for how the British state consistently fails the British people. It’s outrageous the victims have been failed in this way. The whole saga is a national embarrassment. He should have been on a flight out of the UK long ago.”

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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
5 months ago

Remind me: why do we need people like this in Britain?

Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

They are, according to our rulers, the “Wonderful People”, and they’ve been imported to replace us.

RTSC
RTSC
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

Because we needed to be enriched with even more violent men, who have no respect for women and think they can grab, abuse and rape any female they take a fancy to.

Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak and Two-Tier think it’s good for us.

JXB
JXB
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

To enrich our culture. Paraphrasing Mark Steyn: if you take a tub of ice-cream and mix it with a tub of dogshit, the result will taste more of the latter than the former.

Art Simtotic
5 months ago

How convenient. No such luck for the recipients of Two-Tier justice in the aftermath of the Southport child murders (who often got longer prison sentences for word-crime than the 12 months awarded for two sexual assaults in the Epping case).

Meanwhile GB News reported a national total of 87 prisoners released by mistake in 2023.

Mogwai
5 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

In other ‘dangerous migrant news’, the psycho from Sudan who murdered Rhiannon Whyte has been found guilty. I wonder what sentence he’ll get. He stabbed her 19 times in the head with a screwdriver. I just can’t believe these criminals ( and this is what they should be treated as because none will have had any sort of background checks done, presumably ) are free to come and go, roam around the neighbourhood, with nobody knowing their whereabouts and no-one’s taking any responsibility.

”Deng Chol Majek, who is believed to have entered the UK by small boat less than three months before launching a frenzied attack on Rhiannon Whyte, showed no emotion in the dock as the verdict was returned.
Jurors at Wolverhampton Crown Court deliberated for two hours and five minutes on Friday before unanimously convicting Majek of murder and possessing a screwdriver as an offensive weapon.”

https://www.perspectivemedia.com/asylum-seeker-convicted-of-murdering-hotel-worker-in-cowardly-station-stabbing/

Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
5 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Given a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 40 years, so depending on what you believe his age to be, either 59 or 67 when he becomes eligible to apply for parole.

Western Firebrand
Western Firebrand
5 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

On the radio just now, the MP for Chelmsford gave a figure of 262 released by mistake over a twelve month period to earlier this year.

rms
rms
5 months ago

How is this guy more dangerous than the hundreds? or more already in our country?

Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
5 months ago
Reply to  rms

He’s not, but in his case it’s been proven that he poses a known risk whereas with the others it hasn’t. We’re all suspicious of these sort of people, their background, likely religion and lack of education counts strongly against them.

Mogwai
5 months ago

Someone sighted and filmed him this afternoon. Here he is asking some brothers which way the detention centre is ( sarc ), looking decidedly unbothered that there’s an actual manhunt underway for his nasty, creepy self;

”I have been sent footage, of who is believed to be the Epping migrant, Hadush Kebatu ,videod by a member of the public in Chelmsford City centre at midday today, and emailed to me.

I have permission to share.

He is wanted by Police.”

https://x.com/EssexPR/status/1981758317144777161

John Kitchen
John Kitchen
5 months ago

“accidentally”

Old Arellian
Old Arellian
5 months ago
Reply to  John Kitchen

Indeed. Was the person involved a “migrants welcome here” supporter, of a particular faith group, just plain thick or with another agenda?

Bloss
Bloss
5 months ago

I won’t be posting as profanity and abuse will be removed and just now that’s all that comes to mind.

RTSC
RTSC
5 months ago

The human who made the error should be sacked for gross incompetence.

The Government which imported the criminal migrant/sex offender in the first place should also be sacked for gross incompetence.

Marcus Aurelius knew
5 months ago
Reply to  RTSC

He was probably allowed to complete his own paperwork.

Myra
5 months ago

It feels like they are deliberately provoking.
Migrant out and coming back in…
Releasing a convicted migrant…
What is going on?

Maybe Digital ID will sort it 😉

Hound of Heaven
Hound of Heaven
5 months ago
Reply to  Myra

Absolutely. We are being played.

Dinger64
5 months ago

Third world savages, and we’re purposely importing them! Why?????
Leave them be, like the Sentinelese!

Cotfordtags
5 months ago

I do wonder how accidental this was. When you have employees of the Home Office of a certain background telling Christians that their applications are not valid, when you have judges stating men with grey and receding hair are children, another judge letting a migrant walk out of court, despite him fondling the most private parts of female anatomy, this character being given a ridiculously short sentence and then ‘accidently’ freed rather than being sent to a removal centre, it just all seems too convenient that the Home and Justice departments are rife with people marching to a different drum beat to the rest of us.

Western Firebrand
Western Firebrand
5 months ago

So the police are appealing to give himself up, while he plays out an episode of C4 “Hunted” in a city covered by CCTV cameras. Apparently he’s got access to money – not that people from his background need tickets to travel around London (no one bothers about those jumping ticket gates anymore).

EUbrainwashing
5 months ago

AI digital cartoon