Manhunt for Ethiopian asylum seeker sex offender accidentally released

Well sarnia, 14 years of Tory neglect will take a lot of undoing.

I never really understood Austerity. Was it supposed to be some sort of collective belt tightening for the greater good? Only some people didn't have a belt.

The whole concept of " services" is no longer in existence. Every damn thing I need I pay through the nose for over and over again. Food banks are the norm. It's all wrong.

Someone upthread commented on getting rid of more expensive senior/experienced staff and bringing in cheaper new staff (who often leave quickly).

The prison was (like most prisons) understaffed and under pressure.

StripeyGran, imo it was an ideological approach. Cameron talked about getting rid of ‘pen pushers’ in public bodies. The result is a lack of admin staff, so call eg the DWP and hold in for 45 minutes before speaking to a human.
He closed SureStart family centres on the basis, he said, families like his used them and didn’t need them. These family centres saved public money by supporting vulnerable families in areas of deprivation. We have more children in care because we lost our good support services, including drug, alcohol, mental health. More homelessness, It really isn’t rocket science 🙈

Iam64

StripeyGran, imo it was an ideological approach. Cameron talked about getting rid of ‘pen pushers’ in public bodies. The result is a lack of admin staff, so call eg the DWP and hold in for 45 minutes before speaking to a human.
He closed SureStart family centres on the basis, he said, families like his used them and didn’t need them. These family centres saved public money by supporting vulnerable families in areas of deprivation. We have more children in care because we lost our good support services, including drug, alcohol, mental health. More homelessness, It really isn’t rocket science 🙈

There were still 2,204 Sure Start centres in England in 2023.

1,400 were closed not all of them.

GrannyGravy13 the "remaining" SureStarts were not the same. They had been diminished in every way it seems to me.

I'm sure I recall a time when most things worked reasonably well most of the time. Trains, power, education ,care.

Not rose tinted specs.

NotSpaghetti

I think, if I remember correctly that this is a remand prison so they will probably have many discharges every day.
He apparently told the van driver he was supposed to be deported and had no idea what to do as the prison had turned him away... Who knows, if he can find a police station he may well hand himself in.

I hope he does... before someone murders or maims him.

That (your last sentence) is what I am hoping too. He doesn't deserve to be murdered for what he did, but I fear there are vigilantes around who might take the law into their own hands.

StripeyGran

I'm sure I recall a time when most things worked reasonably well most of the time. Trains, power, education ,care.

Not rose tinted specs.

And you'd think with the help of technology these things should have greatly improved and saved valuable time, but no!

Like a city with probably some of the most cctv and best communications network in the world can't track down a criminal in prison gear!

On SureStart, I’m influenced by my work experience where I saw the real benefits and the negative impacts when family centres closed. One that did really good work with hard to reach families closed. The council decided to use limited funding by transforming the centre into one aimed at young offenders. The research of course, shows early years intervention reduces teen pregnancy, offending, drug use etc.
The outstanding family centres saved public in my town was closed when the council could no longer meet its statutory duties

growstuff

NotSpaghetti

I think, if I remember correctly that this is a remand prison so they will probably have many discharges every day.
He apparently told the van driver he was supposed to be deported and had no idea what to do as the prison had turned him away... Who knows, if he can find a police station he may well hand himself in.

I hope he does... before someone murders or maims him.

That (your last sentence) is what I am hoping too. He doesn't deserve to be murdered for what he did, but I fear there are vigilantes around who might take the law into their own hands.

That had crossed my mind, but hopefully, any person intent on harming him would realise it served no purpose.

However, I also hope he hands himself in before another child might be at risk.

Both ways, he needs to.

escaped

Mysterious definitely.

How many people have to "set free" or sign a prisoners out? I don't know, but surely more than just one person processes them?

You couldn't make it up. They said he's got a bank account with access to funds. Surely the first thing to do would be to cut off all funds. Of course they'll be lessons learnt and enquiries aaaahhhhgggg!

Iam I agree entirely.
SureStart took a while to bed in but it was working at its best when the closures and cuts started.

Very shortsighted.

He has been found

Iam64

On SureStart, I’m influenced by my work experience where I saw the real benefits and the negative impacts when family centres closed. One that did really good work with hard to reach families closed. The council decided to use limited funding by transforming the centre into one aimed at young offenders. The research of course, shows early years intervention reduces teen pregnancy, offending, drug use etc.
The outstanding family centres saved public in my town was closed when the council could no longer meet its statutory duties

Iam64
I was talking to my retired social worker friend just yesterday afternoon on this very subject. She was involved in one of these schemes ( young offenders) set up by our council, Southend.
What was lovely to hear was that she often sees some of them posting on the NextDoor app. From this she can see that she and the scheme made a difference to these youngsters lives 🥰

He's been arrested. I wonder just how many police hours and resources have been wasted on this fiasco.

NotSpaghetti

*He has been found*

Yes!
About 8:30am in the Finsbury Park area of N.London.

Thanks to ..... the public!

I'm glad, it could have turned nasty.

I really do not have one iota of sympathy for this criminal, my sympathies lie with the female child and women he molested.

I expect them, their families and friends are relieved he has been found.

Hopefully he will be back whence he came from pdq.

Just to be crystal clear, I have no " sympathies" for a criminal who hurt a child and a woman.

GrannyGravy13

I really do not have one iota of sympathy for this criminal, my sympathies lie with the female child and women he molested.

I expect them, their families and friends are relieved he has been found.

Hopefully he will be back whence he came from pdq.

Ahem! Not one iota? He knew he was being deported and accepted it. He'd served the time British justice said he should. He didn't want to be released and wanted to be readmitted.

Unfortunately, there are people around who have the same attitude as you, but would go further.

Thank goodness he's been found and can now be deported, where he'll have no further access to British girls.

growstuff

GrannyGravy13

I really do not have one iota of sympathy for this criminal, my sympathies lie with the female child and women he molested.

I expect them, their families and friends are relieved he has been found.

Hopefully he will be back whence he came from pdq.

Ahem! Not one iota? He knew he was being deported and accepted it. He'd served the time British justice said he should. He didn't want to be released and wanted to be readmitted.

Unfortunately, there are people around who have the same attitude as you, but would go further.

Thank goodness he's been found and can now be deported, where he'll have no further access to British girls.

Why should I have any sympathy for him?

My attitude? Please explain…

StripeyGran

Just to be crystal clear, I have no " sympathies" for a criminal who hurt a child and a woman.

It's not a question of having sympathies. It's about justice and upholding it. He was charged, found guilty and sentenced and served his punishment (same as anybody else who had done the same and received the same sentence).

It wasn't his fault that the authorities seemingly didn't want to have anything more to do with him.

growstuff

StripeyGran

Just to be crystal clear, I have no " sympathies" for a criminal who hurt a child and a woman.

It's not a question of having sympathies. It's about justice and upholding it. He was charged, found guilty and sentenced and served his punishment (same as anybody else who had done the same and received the same sentence).

It wasn't his fault that the authorities seemingly didn't want to have anything more to do with him.

I felt the need to write that, incase I was basically attacked on this site.

Thanks.