'HUMAN ERROR' LED TO RELEASE OF SEX OFFENDER

Lammy launches probe into jail farce

- BY LIZZY BUCHAN Political Editor and DAVE BURKE

JUSTICE Secretary David Lammy has ordered an independent probe into how a failed asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl was wrongly freed from jail.

Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was caught on Sunday following a two-day manhunt after he was mistakenly released from HMP Chelmsford instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre.

Mr Lammy told the Commons Kebatu would be deported to Ethiopia imminently.

But he said: "This has not changed the fact that Mr Kebatu's victims are rightly outraged about what has happened, and I am livid on their behalf and on behalf of the public.