Offences by an asylum seeker sparked angry protests outside a hotel where he was living in Essex. Photo: AP PHOTO

UK officials say they have arrested Hadush Kebatu, a migrant sex offender whose offences led to weeks of protests and who was mistakenly released from prison, in north London after a nearly three-day manhunt and will deport him.

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Kebatu was sentenced in September to a 12-month term for sexual assaults of a teenage girl and a woman, and was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre to be deported when he was freed by mistake on Friday.

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