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A prisoner released by mistake earlier this week has handed himself in, while the hunt continues for a migrant sex offender also let free in error.

Billy Smith, 35, handed himself back in three days after he was released from HMP Wandsworth.

Police are continuing their efforts to track down Algerian national Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, mistakenly released from the same prison on October 29.

It came as Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones said prison chiefs were being summoned for a meeting on Thursday and a team of digital experts had been tasked with overhauling the “archaic

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