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The Ethiopian national had been wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre, triggering a two-day manhunt

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A migrant sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison was given a £500 payment after threatening to disrupt his removal before being forcibly deported to Ethiopia, it is understood.