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

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.

"Officers are carrying out urgent enquiries in an effort to locate him and return him to custody," a spokesperson for the Met said.

Shortly before the news broke, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was asked during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons whether any more asylum seekers had been wrongly released

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