Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Epping. The sex attack led to major protests in Epping View 3 Images Hadush Kebatu was accidentally freed on Friday (Image: PA)

An asylum seeker who was mistakenly released from prison returned in a “very confused state” several times in a 90-minute period before staff sent him away to a railway station.

Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Epping and was freed from HMP Chelmsford instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre.

The manhunt for him is now centred on London where the last confirmed sighting of him was in Dalston, east London, on Friday evening, the

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