BIZARRE: 3 | Mind Blowing Facts

Hadush Kebatu makes bombshell claim: 'I tried to hand myself in to police before arrest'

The Metropolitan Police has said it is ‘not aware of any evidence’ to support Kebatu’s claim.

Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2025

Wrongly released migrant sex offender claims he tried to hand himself in to police

A migrant sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison claims that he tried to hand himself in to police.

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2025

Palestine Action activist 'led anti-Israel protest from London prison cell in security farce'

Muhammad Umer Khalid, who is accused of targeting RAF Brize Norton, allegedly spoke on the telephone to pro-Palestine demonstrators from inside HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2025

Home Office deports migrant sex offender to Ethiopia after prison release error

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The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2025

Inmate at scandal-hit HMP Chelmsford took own life after staff failed to spot he was a suicide risk

An inmate at scandal-hit HMP Chelmsford died despite being a known suicide risk

Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2025

Epping sex offender Hadush Kebatu was given £500 to 'stop him disrupting flight to avoid deportation'

Hadush Kebatu was deported on Tuesday evening after being arrested following a huge manhunt when he was wrongly freed from prison

Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2025

Migrant sex offender deported after being mistakenly released from prison

Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2025

Five more prisoners freed in error after sex offender’s release from Essex jail

Union says staff shortages and confusion over early release schemes are driving a rise in mistakes

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2025

The Guardian view on state failure: Britain’s crisis is not just one of investment, but also of upkeep

Editorial: Fixing prisons, hospitals and local councils means rejecting austerity’s logic and recognising that state spending builds competence, not waste

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2025

Mistaken release of migrant sex offender was hardly surprising – prison officers are dangerously overstretched

The mistaken release of a sex offender who was set to be deported exposes the staffing pressures at the heart of Britain’s prisons crisis. A senior prison employee told the BBC that Hadush Kebatu’s accidental release was “down to a series of mistakes probably because staff are overworked and in…

The Conversation · Oct 28, 2025