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Police searching for Algerian sex offender freed from Wandsworth jail by mistake along with convicted fraudster – days after justice secretary claimed he’d introduced strictest-ever prison checks following Epping migrant blunder

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A sex offender who was in Britain illegally is being hunted by police after he was accidentally released from jail just days after a similar blunder left a asylum seeker on the streets.