Manhunt for foreign prisoner after mistaken release from HMP Wandsworth

https://news.sky.com/story/manhunt-for-foreign-prisoner-after-mistaken-release-from-hmp-wandsworth-13464331

by topotaul

30 comments

  2. “The error at HMP Wandsworth in south London happened on 29 October – just five days after the high-profile release of migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu from HMP Chelmsford.

    It was also two days after Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy announced enhanced checks on prisoner releases.”

    Unbelievable, you couldn’t make it up.

  4. Worth pointing out that hundreds are accidentally released each year. That’s not a good thing obviously but it’s not unique to foreign prisoners

  5. I got into prisons for work sometimes, and have to say this doesn’t surprise me sadly, its not a case of bad security, its a case of bad institutional processes and failure to reflect and improve.

  6. It’s times like this where you think that maybe the conspiracy theorists weren’t **all** crazy.

  7. My Gym has fingerprint entry and exit barriers.

    Simply not hard to get the prisons to add it here, and have it reconcile to an excel sheet pulling from a database

  8. This is the one thing we did not want to happen again. After the last thing we didn’t want to happen happened.

  9. This kind of high comedy is what I love about this country. It’s a matter of national character, we don’t take anything seriously.

    Every couple of weeks, there’s some fuckup that reminds us we’re all human. Beats the shit out of living in one of those countries where shit just works.

  10. So did this one desperately try to hand himself in too

  11. they’re just doing this on purpose now. what a pisstake

  12. again….AGAIN!

    Seriously its been less than a week.

  13. No surprise considering the Prison Service and Probation Service has been gutted, parts sold off, parts run by private companies etc and been made to run on a shoe string budget for the past decade.

    People need to make their mind up, they either want an effective Prison Service that rehabilitates prisoners where possible so they don’t re-offend when they come out, keeps Prisoners safe from violence and is much less prone to mistakes or what we have now.

    Of course one costs a lot more money to run but is ultimately when you look at the bigger picture is far far cheaper or you spend the absolute minimum like we do now and you have prisoners being released when they shouldn’t, prisoners being attacked on a daily basis and a high re-offending rate because we offer little to no help during their stay and after release.

  14. This is what happens when you keep defunding the state, withholding investment and voting for people who avoid taxes.

  15. I kind of wonder how many people are being held in prison who should have been released. Presumably the rampant incompetence works both ways?

  16. So the prison service either didn’t know or kept this secret for 6 days. Why? Who knew? When did they know? Who did they tell? There has to be a police investigation into whether there was either a cover up or this was an inside job.

  18. Anyone suprised. Remember when khalifi escaped. They had like only 30% of the staff they were supposed to. Cant have over two thirds of your staff missing and expect it to go well.

  19. Have we got fucking g4s back in charge of prisons or something???

  20. Surely at this point they should be talking about an independent review into the security measures in place at prisons. I’m very much opposed to people losing their jobs because clearly this is a system wide issue. They should look at why this is happening, how it’s happened so many times and what needs to change to prevent further incidents. There should be really serious learning, rather than just blaming.

  21. This will be the new bit in the teeth for the media now. Even tho it happened fairly regularly every single one will now be reported on breaking news

  22. A spokesman said: ‘this is the one thing we didn’t want to happen’

  23. I understand human error exists but how can they keep making these mistakes

  24. Hugely disappointed by Lammy at PMQs. He clearly knew this had happened, refused to answer a question on it, and came across as hugely partisan and untrustworthy. It’s as close to lying to the House as you can get.

    I expect this government to be more professional and more accountable than the Tories. This sort of squirming lickspittle act is not impressive.

  25. Once is a blunder. Twice is a pattern, and not a pretty one. Either someone’s asleep at the wheel, or there’s a grubby little effort underway to make the government look like a clown car on fire.

    The first case already reeked of absurdity. The first instance – the felon apparently loitered for hours outside the prison, baffled and beseeching, asking the staff where he was supposed to go, only to be briskly shooed along each time until he finally followed their “guidance” straight out the gate.

    And now this encore. The more cynical observers might request they be spared the talk of coincidence and suggest these incidences
    increasingly smell less like oversight and more like orchestration. Time for the authorities to stop dithering and start diggin.

    Disgraceful either way.

  26. Remember folks – after the first one happened, no one has yet to resign. Nada has happened to anyone.

    Just attempts at outrage and outcry, yet nothing has changed.

  27. Rewatching parliament today today it’s perfectly clear the Conservatives weren’t asking the question about prisoners being released just as a routine question to annoy the government, they’d clearly been informed by a whistleblower that this release had happened and were pushing the point but most damning of all based on his reaction it’s now abundantly clear Deputy PM David Lammy knew about this prisoner release and his hostility towards the Conservatives and really everyone in parliament was because he was trying to buy time until parliament went into recess

    Lammy needs to be brought back to parliament right now, physically dragged by other MP’s and house officials if need be and told to explain why he was openly lying to the house and entire British people live on air and if he refuses to and parliament goes into recess with the government hoping time will pass and people will just forget then parliament needs to convene an emergency meeting and give the government a chance to attend and explain what the hell is going on or pass a motion of no confidence in the government and call for an immediate election

  28. They couldn’t use wifi in prison so they have to rely on pen and paper with hand written notes.
    But still. You would have thought they can verify over the phone or something

  29. Before I join in, I need to know which prisoner is everyone ranting about? …Turns out they released ANOTHER prisoner early on Monday on top of the Algerian.

    So, this countries a f*%kin shambles and everybody needs to be fired. Incompetent fools……

  30. Again I find it strange we’re using manhunt to describe someone who was released and doesn’t know they’re “on the run” lol…

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