The London Metropolitan Police are searching for a man who had been released from jail in error. Photo: AP PHOTO

Police in the United Kingdom have launched a manhunt after another foreign prisoner was mistakenly released from jail.

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The 24-year-old Algerian man was accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth in southwest London on October 29 but the mistake was only reported to the Metropolitan Police on Tuesday, the force said.

It comes after migrant Hadush Kebatu - a migrant sex offender whose offences led to weeks of protests - was wrongly released from HMP Chelmsford on October 24.

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