Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu manhunt live: Met police take over search for sex offender after London sighting

Commander James Conway says finding Kebatu, whose arrest sparked riots over the summer, is a ‘top priority’A delivery driver called Sim, who spoke to Hadush Kebatu at Chelmsford prison has told Sky News the “confused” offender was guided to the railway station by prison staff.Sim was delivering equipment to the prison on Friday when Kebatu was released in error instead of being handed over to immigration officials for deportation.He came out of the airlock, and kept saying to the officers there, ‘Where am I going? What am I doing? I don’t know where I’m going and what I’m doing.’He was holding a pack of paperwork in his arms, and his bag of bits …He knew he’d been deported. He came over to me and said, ‘I need you to help me.’I am appalled that it has happened and it’s being investigated.The police are working urgently to track him down, and my Government is supporting them … This man must be caught and deported for his crimes.Let us be clear, we inherited a collapsing prison system in which the last government was releasing people early and which our prisons were overflowing.And, indeed, we have a sentencing bill in parliament seeking to address that issue, and we have stabilised the system. Continue reading...