UK police has started a manhunt to locate a ex asylum seeker who was in jail for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, after the latter was mistakenly released from the HMP Chelmsford prison on Friday.

Hadush Kebatu, the Ethiopian national in question, was jailed in September for a 12-month term for the sex assault crime. Also Read | 'He raped me': UK politician's wife alleges years of abuse in marriage

While the UK prison service has launched a probe into the matter, an officer of the prison has been suspended.

Essex Police has said that Kebatu had boarded a train bound for London from Chelmsford station.

David Lammy, the Justice Secretary of the UK, has expressed his displeasure over the incident, saying that he was "livid on behalf of the public that Kebatu is at large," as p

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