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A manhunt has been launched after a foreign inmate was released from jail by mistake.

The 24-year-old Algerian man was accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth, in south-west London, on October 29.

The mistake was only reported to the Metropolitan Police on Tuesday (November 4), the force said.

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It comes after migrant Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on October 24.

A spokesperson for the Met said: "Shortly after 1pm on Tuesday, November 4, the Met was informed by the Prison Service that a prisoner had been released in error from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday, October 29.

"The prisoner is a 24-year-old Algerian man.

"Officers are carrying out urgent enquiries in an effort to locate

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