A prisoner mistakenly freed from a London prison earlier this week has been found after a three-day manhunt.

William Smith, also known as Billy, was sentenced to four years in jail after being convicted of multiple fraud offences on Monday.

But the 35-year-old fraudster was freed from HMP Wandsworth in the affluent south London suburb that same day.

Smith was photographed earlier today handing himself in and being escorted back to prison – but not before smoking a cigarette. He was reportedly freed due to a mix-up with his surname – his co-defendant, handed a suspended sentence, has the surname Smith, too.

Surrey Police revealed Smith was freed on the same day that the authorities said Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, a 24-year-old Algerian man, was freed last Wednesday from HMP Wandsworth.

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