The UK said Wednesday it had deported an Ethiopian asylum seeker and convicted sex offender after he was accidentally released from prison in an embarrassing blunder for a government already under fire over immigration.
“Hadush Kebatu has arrived back in Ethiopia after being deported from the UK, with no right to return,” the UK’s interior ministry said, after he was re-arrested on Sunday following a nearly 48-hour-long manhunt by police.
Kebatu, 38, had served the first month of a one-year sentence for sexually assaulting a teenage girl and a woman. He was reportedly due to be deported when the Prison Service error occurred Friday.
Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, an asylum seeker who was jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, was mistakenly released from prison on Friday.
According to prison sources, the man who was jailed for 12 months over the attack in Epping, Essex, last monthwas meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre ahead of a planned deportation when the mix up occurred.
