Mistakenly freed UK prisoner surrenders, search on for the other

Error heaps further embarrassment on PM Keir Starmer’s struggling party

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One of two inmates, who were mistakenly released early from a London prison, surrendered yesterday after waving to reporters and smoking a cigarette on the steps of the Victorian-era lockup.

Billy Smith, 35, turned himself in to HMP Wandsworth three days after he was released in the latest administrative blunder to focus attention on an overcrowded prison system that has become a political liability for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government after being a thorn in the side of their Conservative predecessors.

Meeting of prison chiefs