Justice secretary David Lammy to announce series of measures after Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed
Prisons are expected to begin enhanced checks before inmates are released after a man who sexually assaulted a young girl was mistakenly freed from jail.
The justice secretary, David Lammy, will set out a series of measures aimed at strengthening the system in England and Wales as he faces questions from MPs in parliament about the error.
The former asylum seeker Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning, instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre.
The Ethiopian national, who had been living at the Bell hotel in Epping, in Essex, when he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl, later travelled to London. He was arrested on Sunday morning in Finsbury Park after a two-day manhunt.
