A CCTV image issued by the Metropolitan Police of Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu in Dalston, east London, on Friday, the day he was mistakenly released from prison. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire
A former asylum seeker and convicted sex offender who was released from a UK prison in error has been located and is back in custody, British police said.
The Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl and made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order.
He was arrested in the Finsbury Park area of north London at around 8.30am on Sunday, Scotland Yard said.
The Metropolitan Police commander James Conway, who oversaw the operation to find Kebatu, said: “This has been a diligent and fast-paced investigation led by specialist officers fr
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