justice failure
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When Policy, Prisons and Public Safety All Cock-up
On Friday morning, staff at HMP Chelmsford handed Hadush Kebatu, a 38-year-old Ethiopian asylum seeker convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, a £76 discharge grant and opened the door. They sent him home. Except he had no business going home. He was scheduled for immediate transfer to an immigration removal centre ahead of deportation to Ethiopia,…