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At a glance

• Convicted fraudster William ‘Billy’ Smith, mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth on Monday, handed himself back into the prison on Thursday, ending a police manhunt

• Police are still searching for Algerian national Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, a sex offender wrongly freed from the same jail on October 29

• Justice Secretary David Lammy called the situation ‘unacceptable’ and said digital systems are being introduced to replace paper records

One of the prisoners wrongly released from Wandsworth jail has handed himself back.

Convicted fraudster William “Billy”

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