How can a prisoner be released by mistake? A frequently familiar incident, this time involving an asylum seeker, has occurred. Earlier this year, police are on high alert to recapture an asylum seeker who was wrongly released after being sentenced to 12 months in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping. Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was staying at The Bell Hotel in Essex after arriving in the UK. He had come to the country as an asylum seeker and was emboldened to the point of sexually assaulting a girl.
These asylum seekers flee their home countries, but they continue to live the same lives they did in their home countries. They continue to experience the same irregularities here.
What’s truly surprising is this person’s wrongful release. Although he received a 12-month sentence, even serving the full 12 months isn’t a significant sentence. As Prime Minister Starmer said, he should be caught immediately and sent back to his country, but if he can be caught…
Can a prisoner be released by mistake? Maybe, but if this happens frequently, it means something’s wrong.
Either the justice system isn’t doing its job properly.
Or prisons aren’t functioning properly. There’s another possibility, but we don’t even want to consider it. There are those in prison management or among the guards who are turning a blind eye to the criminal’s escape.
So, is there a chance this criminal will be caught? Yes, but only if the police want it…
