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An asylum seeker who was mistakenly released from prison returned in a 'very confused state' several times in a 90-minute period before staff sent him away to the railway station, a witness has said.

Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and was freed from HMP Chelmsford instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre.

The Metropolitan Police, which is leading the manhunt for the migrant who had been living at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, made a direct appeal to Kebatu to hand himself in.

They revealed that he had taken a train from Chelmsford to Stratford, London, arriving at 1.12pm on Friday and then had taken "a number of journeys" across London and had "access to fu

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