Convicted sex offender Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was accidentally freed from prison because of ‘human error’, David Lammy has said.

Kebatu, an Ethiopian asylum seeker, was jailed after trying to kiss a 14-year-old girl in Epping, near London, in July.

The 38-year-old also sexually assaulted a woman by trying to kiss her, putting his hand on her leg and telling her she was pretty.

Following his conviction in September, Kebatu was wrongly released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday, just one month into his one-year sentence. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

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He travelled from the Essex city to Dalston, east London, where he was spotted on CCTV carrying an avocado-print tote bag in a library.

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