Manhunt for Ethiopian asylum seeker sex offender accidentally released

Yes I agree Ilovecheese. It’s a tough job.

I don’t think females should be employed in male prisons. On the whole. It seems a temptation. Some silly girls have always been attracted to the ‘bad boys’.

I didn’t say ‘a female’ StripeyGran.
I said ‘someone’ about this case.

Delivery driver says he saw prison staff repeatedly turn Hadush Kebatu away and direct him to Chelmsford railway station.

There’s something very fishy about all of this.

FGT It might help if their profession had higher status.

How do we know a female helped a criminal to escape deportation please?

I think a lot of staff are "bought in".

Ye gods.

Strap line just now from The Telegraph on my iPad “missing migrant tried to return to prison but guards shooed him away”.

When numerous female prison wardens have been caught having ‘relations’ with male inmates, others caught assisting in drug smuggling within the prison, and now someone enables a criminal to escape deportation, you have to question the standards for hiring prison staff and their supervision.

Perhaps with the 200+ wrongful releases a year it’s time to put prisoners in orange jumpsuits so we can spot them in the street.

Only joking.

I feel very sorry for his victims today.

Jaxjacky

Good point growstuff you beat me to it. The Colombian man was invited here by the two men for sexual gratification amongst other things.
More heinous crimes are committed by people known to the person, particularly violent crime, not from random strangers.

I didn't want to go into the details. It wasn't as straightforward case.

icanhandthemback

According to the BBC 216 Prisoners were released accidentally last year. This country is a shambles!

If we knew where we could tell all residents to stay at home and never venture out?

According to the BBC 216 Prisoners were released accidentally last year. This country is a shambles!

Good point growstuff you beat me to it. The Colombian man was invited here by the two men for sexual gratification amongst other things.
More heinous crimes are committed by people known to the person, particularly violent crime, not from random strangers.

Why would families not allow young people out on their own?

Marauding foreigner on the loose? Really?

vegansrock

Prisons are woefully understaffed and many run by private companies out to make a profit. The whole system needs a shakeup.

When Rory Stewart was a minister for various things in the previous government he points out that he wasn’t given the time or the money to make the improvements that were necessary. He did make some improvements in the prison service but overall the prison service was left in a terrible state by the Conservatives. To be honest, so many things need fixing in this country that I don’t know how they know where to start.

faringdon59

Recently I've been trying to wean myself off of watching the evening news....too depressing.
However, last night I sat down at six to watch it.
Well the breaking news was about the manhunt for the accidently released prisoner. Indeed you couldn't make it up so farcical.
Next we had the sentencing of a guy who killed a young mother on here way home from working in an asylum hotel!
Then our local news came on and the first item was about a Columbian man who was sentenced for a double murder.
The victims human remains were brought down to Bristol from London in two suitcases. The leading detective in this case was interviewed and he relayed how the brutality of this crime had affected his officers.
Sadly all parties in our government have their heads in the sand on what is really happening in this country.
Our freedoms are being eroded daily all because of a multi-cultural ideal.

If you know anything about the murder by the Columbian man who tried to dispose of the remains in Bristol, you'd know there's a lot more to it than what's "really happening in this country"". Yes, the murderer is a foreign national, but his being in the country has nothing to do with any "multi-cultural" ideal. May I respectfully ask you do some homework about the background to the case. Shame on anybody who weaponises that case against immigrants!

Chelmsford MP Marie Goldman makes the point that HMP Chelmsford this is a remand prison, which means it is used to having prisoners coming and going quite frequently.

They are held in HMP Chelmsford for not a very long time, usually when they are waiting for trial or maybe for a couple of weeks after they have had trial and waiting to be transferred to another prison.

John Podmore - a former governor of HMP Brixton, Belmarsh and Swaleside, and a former prison inspector - said the process of moving prisoners is "fairly complicated" and he hoped a "lower down official is not thrown under the bus".

"This is not one person making one decision, there should be checks by a range of people up and down the hierarchy," Mr Podmore told Today.

"It should be seen in the context of wider failure. I am afraid this is what happens in a broken system and the prison system is broken. This is a symptom of a wider failure of the prison and the probation service."

Recently I've been trying to wean myself off of watching the evening news....too depressing.
However, last night I sat down at six to watch it.
Well the breaking news was about the manhunt for the accidently released prisoner. Indeed you couldn't make it up so farcical.
Next we had the sentencing of a guy who killed a young mother on here way home from working in an asylum hotel!
Then our local news came on and the first item was about a Columbian man who was sentenced for a double murder.
The victims human remains were brought down to Bristol from London in two suitcases. The leading detective in this case was interviewed and he relayed how the brutality of this crime had affected his officers.
Sadly all parties in our government have their heads in the sand on what is really happening in this country.
Our freedoms are being eroded daily all because of a multi-cultural ideal.

Prisons are woefully understaffed and many run by private companies out to make a profit. The whole system needs a shakeup.

escaped

So he wasn't given an oyster card or cash then, just a sort of voucher. Specifying what, or where? How does it work?

I read he was given a travel warrant and about £80 in cash as all released prisoners do.

I can imagine he was somewhat confused!

So he wasn't given an oyster card or cash then, just a sort of voucher. Specifying what, or where? How does it work?

He’s only been in this country a short time so will not be used to how things work here. I imagine he just thanked his lucky stars when he was set free and set off with his travel warrant. He made no effort to cover his grey prison outfit did he?
Most people also know that prisoners carry their belongings in clear plastic bags and he made no effort to get rid of that either.

Walking around like that you would think he would get caught quickly unless of course he has fellow countrymen who will assist him in hiding.

Iam64
Yes, this.

The prisons are in crisis. I know not everyone wants to acknowledge the awful legacy of austerity when senior prison officers were made redundant, alongside police and senior local authority staff.
A prison officer has been relieved of his duties. It’s clear the number of checks used before a prisoner is released failed. It’s also shocking this man’s release date wasn’t red lighted with plans for deportation

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?

By people, I mean prison officers.