Brahim Kaddour-Cherif and William Smith have both been mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth, with their disappearances coming a matter of days after another high-profile escape

Police were forced to launch new massive UK searches after two inmates were accidentally released from prison for the second and third times in the space of a month.

Surrey Police confirmed this afternoon that officers were hunting for convicted fraudster William Smith , who was freed from Wandsworth Prison by mistake on Monday after he was at sentenced at Croydon Crown Court to 45 months for multiple fraud offences. The search is taking place as the London Metropolitan Police seek convicted Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif.

Kaddour-Cherif, 24, walked free on October 29 while serving a sentence

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