For the second time in two weeks, London police are searching for a foreign prisoner accidentally released from custody.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed at lunchtime on Wednesday (Wednesday night AEDT) that a 24-year-old Algerian man was released from His Majesty's Prison Wandsworth, in south-west London, on October 29.

The Met said the Prison Service informed police of the release just after 1pm on Tuesday.

"Officers are carrying out urgent enquiries in an effort to locate him and return him to custody," they said.

The Met Police did not name the Algerian man or say what crime he had been charged with or convicted of.

It followed the case of convicted sex offender and asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, whose release from a prison in Chelmsford, Essex, emba

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