Sir Keir Starmer has said David Lammy "set out the facts" on mistaken prisoner releases "to the best of his knowledge" amid questions over what the justice secretary knew and when.

Speaking for the first time since it emerged two prisoners were wrongly freed from HMP Wandsworth, the prime minister also said the situation was "intolerable" and that he was "angry and frustrated".

The Met Police announced on Wednesday afternoon that registered sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, an Algerian national, had been released in error on 29 October. He is still at large.

A few hours later it was revealed another prisoner, 35-year-old William "Billy" Smith, had been wrongly released on Monday - the same day he was convicted for multiple fraud offences and handed a 45-month jail term. He has sin

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