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A migrant sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison was paid £500 to leave the UK after threatening to disrupt his deportation flight.
Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford last Friday morning, rather than being transferred to an immigration detention centre as intended.
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