Sex Assault Hotel Migrant Released From Prison by Mistake was Paid £500 to Leave UK

The migrant sex criminal who offended while staying at Epping’s Bell Hotel and who was wrongly released from prison has been handed £500 in taxpayers’ money to leave Britain. The Mail has more.

Footage captured from Heathrow Airport showed the moment Hadush Kebatu, 38, was escorted on to a plane to Ethiopia last night. 

He was mistakenly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning after serving just one month of his year-long sentence for sexually assaulting a 14 year-old schoolgirl.

Kebatu was given a “discretionary” payment of £500 by the Home Office, it is understood.

The money was handed over because of the threats by Kebatu to “disrupt” the removals flight, sources said.

It is understood that even though his original trial heard it was his “firm wish” to return to Ethiopia, his compliance with immigration officials deteriorated yesterday.

He threatened to launch a legal challenge against his removal and even said he was considering lodging a new asylum claim with the Home Office. 

After indicating he would go quietly in exchange for the cash, Kebatu was forcibly deported from Britain by a team of five security escorts.

Kebatu should have been transferred to a deportation centre last week, but clueless prison officers repeatedly told him to leave and get on a train to London instead. 

The Ethiopian national, who arrived in the UK on a small boat, was arrested in north London on Sunday morning after a two-day manhunt. …

Keabatu’s £500 payment was “an absolute disgrace”, the Conservatives have said.

Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch’s spokesman said: “It’s an absolute disgrace and it goes to the heart of how much this Government is messing up our immigration system.

“We have said we need to leave the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) and deport all foreign criminals as soon as possible, and we certainly shouldn’t be giving them taxpayers’ money to leave our country.”

But the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said the move had saved thousands of pounds of public money in the long run.

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sskinner
5 months ago

Dane-geld A.D. 980-1016 IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation   To call upon a neighbour and to say:– “We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight,   Unless you pay us cash to go away.” And that is called asking for Dane-geld,   And the people who ask it explain That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld   And then you’ll get rid of the Dane! It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,   To puff and look important and to say:– “Though we know we should defeat you,       we have not the time to meet you.   We will therefore pay you cash to go away.” And that is called paying the Dane-geld;   But we’ve proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld   You never get rid of the Dane. It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,   For fear they should succumb and go astray; So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,   You will find it better policy to say:– “We never pay any-one Dane-geld,   No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is… Read more »

sskinner
5 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

In addition:
“A society dies when it cares more about exhibiting infinite tolerance and empathy than invoking it’s survival instinct.”
Gad Saad

felix the cat
felix the cat
5 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Why the apostrophe in “its”?

Marcus Aurelius knew
5 months ago
Reply to  felix the cat

I’m with you, Felix. Tis a burden we bear 😏

sskinner
5 months ago

The enemy is within the gates and you notice the apostrophe in “its”?

Mogwai
5 months ago

It’s ‘Tis.🙄

Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Brilliant! A lesson to us all.

Mogwai
5 months ago

Also, he was sentenced to 12 months in prison but only served 1 month! So for that poor girl and her family, where exactly is the punishment? He’s just got an annual wage in one fell swoop*. Basically, rewarded, then…No reference for these figures but I’ll share them anyway;

”Hadush Kebatu cost us £88,642!

He served 31 days, with £93 on food, £5,524 on prison, £9,000 on deportation, £37,500 on legal, £11,194 on entry, £29,623 on detention, £4,800 misc (NHS £2,350, hotels £435, claims £500 loans).

That’s £599/week over 148 weeks (Jan 2023–Oct 2025)! Range: £75,000–£106,000 (±20%).

Outrageous! £88,642 wasted when it could’ve helped Brits. Demand better borders!”

https://x.com/WasAcop_/status/1983516731898294749

*ӣ500 is worth 100,500 Ethiopian Birr. The average annual salary in Ethiopia is 106,000 EBR.

Breaking into the UK is a well-paying job thanks to the liberal elite.”

https://x.com/TheMercianNews/status/1983515686824485121

MajorMajor
MajorMajor
5 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

He’ll be back. Maybe not in Britain but I bet he’ll surface somewhere in Europe.

Mogwai
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

I wonder how much of his sentence this PoS human detritus will serve. And then will he be put on a plane home with a tidy sum of money, too?

”A small boat migrant who stabbed a man to death in a high street bank has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of 25 years.
Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur pleaded guilty to the murder of Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37, at Derby Crown Court in August.
The Somali national stabbed Mr Johal at random shortly after angrily complaining about his refused asylum application.
Mr Johal, who was known to friends as Danny, died after being stabbed inside Lloyds Bank in St Peter’s Street on 6 May this year. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Nur, who paid just over £350 to travel to the UK last year, was jailed at Derby Crown Court on Wednesday.”

https://news.sky.com/story/small-boat-migrant-who-stabbed-man-to-death-in-derby-bank-jailed-13460015

jeepybee
5 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

And they just paid this c**t the money for a return dinghy fare.

Mogwai
5 months ago
Reply to  jeepybee

Speaking of which, I’ve never heard Charlotte Gill swear or use any bad language whatsoever in her posts. She’s always so articulate and proper. I think she speaks for all sane people here, though I don’t know how many of these mythical ”tipping points” we need, really. The world keeps on turning and no meaningful changes happen as a result of these atrocities. Because they’re happening every day, does this mean we’re just becoming accustomed and desensitized due to stabbings and rapes now being so commonplace that they’ve now become a predictable part of life? ”I’m just so upset over the video of the man being stabbed. There’s no other way to say it. It’s the way he just came out with his dog. It was so evil. And now we will have to pay for this Afghan cunt to go on trial and go to prison. I can’t even express my full rage because our evil government jails everyone except murderers. I feel this is a tipping point for the UK (and goodness knows there’s been a lot).” https://x.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1983284428173369828 And have you seen the Met’s pathetic statement? They can’t even bring themselves to report facts, like: ‘an innocent man… Read more »

MajorMajor
MajorMajor
5 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

And it makes you wonder: how many of the dinghy people are murderers?
How do we know they haven’t committed sadistic atrocities in some war-torn country?
And even if they end up in prison, it’s too late for their victims. Mr Johal is dead.
How much money did the court case cost us? How much money will keeping him in prison cost?
Why, just why do we need these people in Britain? What are we hoping to achieve? Or is this some kind of societal suicide?

jeepybee
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

This is the big question I pose to my leftist friends. I ask why grown men need to hide their past. They explain that we should focus on the poor women and children coming over. I ask what women and children.

Typically that ends it. Friendship I mean.

Mogwai
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

This is the class of people being imported, and as we know, all the human filth from mainland Europe doesn’t stay on the mainland, but gets washed ashore ( thanks, RNLI ) in the British Isles; ”A man living in an asylum accommodation has been convicted by the Tübingen Regional Court for pushing a male acquaintance out of a window and raping him, an incident that was captured by a surveillance camera. The 30-year-old man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for aggravated assault and rape. The incident date back to November 2024 in the city of Reutlingen and involved the 30-year-old man was drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana with the victim inside an asylum accommodation. The two men reportedly began arguing with one another, when the defendant pushed him, according to the victim. The man fell seven meters out of the window (approximately 22 feet), according to a report from SWR. The victim was critically injured on the ground when the asylum seeker came outside, pulled down his pants, and then raped him. A surveillance camera captured the rape. Pedestrians eventually arrived and began shouting for help, with one of them striking the rapist with a handbag. However,… Read more »

Mogwai
5 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

This’ll be why people are seeing more and more signs up around their communities stating, among other things: ”Do not defecate in the street”. I used to think those stupid: ”Now wash your hands” signs in public loos were condescending enough, but imagine the regressive state society’s in when you have to tell adult humans to not take a dump on the street?? 😮 ”Some revolting creature defecating in the street in Central London. People just ignore it. Understandably so – they don’t want to be stabbed, shot, or covered in shit. Who the hell does? Cut to earlier today. An Afghan migrant goes berserk and sets about a dog-walker. A frenzied, terrifying knife attack. It’s just another incident: the unacceptable price we pay for a multiculturalism that no sane person would want in a million years. They tell us to embrace oblivion and we tend to passively comply. Not only are we losing our country, we’re also losing our dignity. The consequences of mass immigration are (to put it mildly) an affront to common decency. I’ve never known such danger. Quite simply, we can’t take any more pressure. We ARE in the foothills of civil war. It seems like… Read more »

Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

Presumably he’s had his finger prints taken and they’re now on file. If he comes back under a different name will he have his prints taken and checked or would this infringe his human rights?

If only we were still part of the EU we could share his finger prints and criminal record with other countries to stop him claiming asylum in a different European country and the authorities would of known if he’d committed similar crimes elsewhere and been able to deport him straight away, he says sarcastically.

Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
5 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Under Liebour’s early release scheme he would of had to serve a third of his sentence, 4 months. Time spent on remand awaiting trial counts towards a person’s sentence so in terms of when he was released he wasn’t treated differently to a white British sex offender. I’ve no idea if his original sentence was significantly less than a British person would of received for the same crimes, under the circumstances the girl was “lucky” in that someone intervened and wasn’t afraid to be called racist for challenging a black person and this perverts crime wasn’t anywhere near as serious as it could of been.

Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

“could’ve been” does sound like “could of been”, because we are all often lazy about pronunciation.

Marcus Aurelius knew
5 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

would of could of should of

RTSC
RTSC
5 months ago

So the Government pays Danegeld to a criminal migrant, in order to get itself out of a problem of its own creation which it REFUSES to do anything to stop.

What pathetic TRAITORS we have in Government.

stafford
stafford
5 months ago
Reply to  RTSC

And has the gall to say it saved money. Cheaper not to have let him in initially, surely?

GroundhogDayAgain
5 months ago

This substack collates a selection of inconvenient news headlines from recent years that illustrate the extent of the rot.

https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/extreme-headlines-and-inconvenient