Overview
- Metropolitan Police detained Hadush Kebatu near a bus stop in Finsbury Park on Sunday morning following public tip-offs.
- Justice Minister David Lammy said Kebatu is in custody and will be deported, announcing tougher release controls and a thorough inquiry.
- Kebatu, 38, was wrongly released on 24 October from HMP Chelmsford while due for transfer to an immigration removal centre.
- He was sentenced in September to 12 months for sexual assaults and attempted assaults involving a 14-year-old girl and another woman in Epping.
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the release totally unacceptable as the case, which had earlier prompted protests at Epping’s Bell Hotel, renewed criticism of the government.