Searches were underway in the U.K. on Wednesday for two men who were mistakenly released from prison — the second and third such incidents in two weeks and part of a growing trend of mistaken releases that have put the government under fire.

London's Metropolitan Police said it was informed by England's prison service on Tuesday afternoon that a 24-year-old was "released in error" from Wandsworth prison, in southwest London, on Oct. 29.

The suspect has been identified as Algerian national Brahim Kaddour Cherif. Police said he is a registered sex offender who was convicted of indecent exposure last year, sentenced to an 18-month community order and put on the sex offenders' register for five years.

The BBC reported that Cherif last appeared in court in September, charged with failing to

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