UK police on Sunday arrested an Ethiopian asylum seeker and convicted sex offender, whose crimes had sparked anti-immigration protests, after he was accidentally released from prison in an embarrassing blunder by officials.<\/p>\n
London\u2019s Metropolitan Police<\/a> said officers arrested Hadush Kebatu in the north of the capital on Sunday morning, nearly 48 hours after he was mistakenly freed.Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> said Kebatu would now be deported.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have ordered an investigation to establish what went wrong. We must make sure this doesn\u2019t happen again,\u201d he wrote on social media.<\/p>\n Kebatu, 38, had served the first month of a one-year sentence for sexually assaulting a teenage girl and a woman, and was reportedly scheduled to be deported when the Prison Service error happened on Friday.<\/p>\n His high-profile case earlier this year in Epping, northeast of London, sparked demonstrations in various English towns and cities where asylum seekers were believed to be housed, as well as counter-protests.<\/p>\n The Metropolitan Police said it received a tip-off Kebatu was at a bus stop in London\u2019s Finsbury Park neighbourhood and officers found him inside that park. He was arrested for \u201cbeing unlawfully at large\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK police on Sunday arrested an Ethiopian asylum seeker and convicted sex offender, whose crimes had sparked anti-immigration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[171590,2414,104950,748,40565,393,102635,171588,62684,4884,171589,807,257,135,171592,171591,29825,19698,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-529500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-anti-immigration-protests","9":"tag-asylum-seeker","10":"tag-bell-hotel","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-chelmsford","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-epping","15":"tag-ethiopian","16":"tag-finsbury-park","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-hadush-kebatu","19":"tag-keir-starmer","20":"tag-london","21":"tag-metropolitan-police","22":"tag-prison-service","23":"tag-sex-offender","24":"tag-sky-news","25":"tag-the-telegraph","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115441493813991216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}