Overview
- Police are searching for 24-year-old Brahim Kaddour-Cherif after he was released from Wandsworth prison last week.
- A second case saw 35-year-old William Smith jailed for fraud on Monday and freed later the same day.
- Justice Secretary David Lammy said he is "absolutely outraged and appalled" by the latest mistaken release and said victims deserve answers.
- POA chair Mark Fairhurst said one error followed a court telling Wandsworth a prisoner had a suspended sentence and another arose because a required warrant was missing.
- The Prison Service annual digest records 262 mistaken releases in England and Wales in the year to March 2025, a 128% rise from 115 the previous year.