An asylum seeker who was accused of sexual assaults on a pair of teenage girls escaped custody during a medical check-up yesterday, according to reports.

The Daily Mail said the man, identified by the paper as 22-year-old Pirouz Mofrad, was missing overnight before being tracked down today.

He was reportedly on a Sexual Risk Order when he made off from a health facility in Bexhill, East Sussex, on Wednesday morning.

The story is the latest to present serious questions about the ability of the justice system to keep potentially dangerous individuals away from the public.

Yesterday, it was reported that two men – Brahim Kaddour-Cherif and Billy Smith – had been accidentally released from HMP Wandsworth in south London.

Smith has since handed himself back into the prison, but Kaddour-Che

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