LONDON (AP) — A convicted sex offender who was mistakenly released early from a London prison was arrested Friday after more than a week of freedom, police said.

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was one of two men accidentally released from Wandsworth Prison in the past two weeks that has caused a political headache for the government and focused renewed attention on an overcrowded and overwhelmed prison system.

The other inmate, Billy Smith, 35, who was sentenced to nearly four years for fraud, surrendered at the Victorian-era lockup Thursday.

Cherif, 24, a registered sex offender due to a previous indecent exposure conviction, was serving time for trespass with intent to steal.

The Algerian national who overstayed a legal visit to the U.K. in 2019 was in the initial stages of deportation when f

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