London
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British police have arrested an asylum-seeker who was mistakenly released from prison on Friday while serving a 12-month sentence for sexual assault following a “fast-moving and complex” manhunt.
Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl while staying at the Bell Hotel in Epping, England – a hotel just outside of London used by the government to help house asylum seekers.
“Hadush Kebatu, who was released in error from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning, has been arrested,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement Sunday.
He was arrested by officers in the Finsbury…
