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The same prison responsible for mistakenly releasing a migrant sex offender last week was also conned into freeing a fraudster two years ago.

An email disguised to look like Royal Courts of Justice correspondence was sent in June 2023 to HMP Chelmsford instructing the prison to releasing convicted fraudster Junead Ahmed on bail.

At the time Ahmed was awaiting sentence aft

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