The second Wandsworth prisoner on the run has been arrested after being mistakenly released.

The Metropolitan Police said Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, a 24-year-old Algerian man, has been arrested in Islington, north London after being accidentally freed last Wednesday from HMP Wandsworth.

In an update on social media, they wrote: ‘Officers have arrested Brahim Kaddour-Cherif who was released in error from HMP Wandsworth on October 29.

‘Cherif was spotted by a member of the public in Blackhorse Lane, Islington just before 11.30am. Officers responded immediately and he was arrested.’ The Metropolitan Police previously said Kaddour-Cherif, who also goes by Ibrahim, was convicted in November 2024 of indecent exposure relating to an incident in March that year.

He was handed an 18-month communit

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