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Manhunt after jailed Epping hotel Asylum Seeker mistakenly RELEASED
BBC ^ | Oct 24 | BBC

Posted on 10/24/2025 11:02:44 AM PDT by RandFan

Police have launched a manhunt after an asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl was mistakenly released from prison.

Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, who arrived in the UK on a small boat, was jailed for 12 months over the attack in Epping, Essex, last month.

Prison sources said Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre ahead of a planned deportation. An investigation has been launched by the Prison Service and an officer has been removed from discharging duties while it takes place.

Kebatu's arrest sparked protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, where he had been living.

In September, Chelmsford Magistrates' Court heard Kebatu on 7 July tried to kiss the teenage girl on a bench and made numerous sexually explicit comments.

The following day on 8 July, he encountered the same girl and tried to kiss her before sexually assaulting her

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1 posted on 10/24/2025 11:02:45 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

“MISTAKENLY”


2 posted on 10/24/2025 11:05:18 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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“mistakenly”

the UK elites hate the natives — the natives should rebel in full force and take back their homeland


3 posted on 10/24/2025 11:06:34 AM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: Gene Eric

The judge called this criminal “a significant risk to the public”

Now he’s on the run :|


4 posted on 10/24/2025 11:07:35 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Given the total surveillance state that the UK has become, if it takes longer than 8 hours for the police to re-arrest this pervert, then he was not “mistakenly” released, but deliberately.


5 posted on 10/24/2025 11:08:50 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: RandFan

A lot of Brits have shotguns and shovels.


6 posted on 10/24/2025 11:09:27 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Gene Eric; RandFan

His release was not a mistake.

The British government and affiliated elites probably take sadistic delight in tormenting the public.

It must be fun to them.


7 posted on 10/24/2025 11:17:16 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ridesthemiles

Exactly. Nothing “mistakenly” about it.


8 posted on 10/24/2025 11:21:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: packagingguy

They’re democrats?


9 posted on 10/24/2025 11:23:20 AM PDT by null and void (Trump has 5 kids, 3 baby mamas, a mugshot, lives in government housing, and Liberals still hate him!)
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To: vikingd00d

Good point.


10 posted on 10/24/2025 12:34:07 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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