November 6, 2025 • 4 mins
British police have launched a manhunt for two wrongly-freed prisoners, including an Algerian sex offender.
London's Metropolitan Police force said in a statement it was looking for the 24-year-old suspect after he was released in error.
UK correspondent Enda Brady says this is concerning for the Government, who are on the defence after this incident.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with that's hello Winda.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Heather, great to be back. How are you so?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Tell me about the latest six offender to be accidentally
released from jail.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, it feels the Groundhog Day here. We did this
story just a couple of weeks ago when they let
out a guy who was sexually assaulted a fourteen year
old girl. Led him out of prison early by accident,
and he even went back in and asked, are you
sure I should be out? And they pointed him in
the direction of a train station and said basically go,
and he did. We have another man hunt underway. I
(00:31):
think this one is even more damaging for the authorities
because we now find out he was released by accident,
a twenty four year old Algerian last Wednesday, and we
were told about it yesterday, and in fact the police
were told about it yesterday and you can imagine the
anger in policing having to now find this guy and
(00:51):
he's had a full week of a head start. So
it's shining a light really on the absolute state of
the prison system in the UK. The government are saying
that look, we just inherited this mess from the previous lot.
It's the Conservative's fault, but in all honesty, they've had
over a year now to try and make things better,
and it's clear that the prison system is on its knees. Meanwhile,
(01:14):
we don't know where a convicted sex offender is. He's
twenty four, he's from Algeria. He is due to be
deported when he finishes this sentence, so he's not exactly
going to walk in and hand himself in.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay, So do you have any grip at the moment
on how many of these people who shouldn't have been
released have been released? Like how many are out there?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, we don't, and that is the question that was
asked in Parliament yesterday during Prime Minister's questions. Starmer has
gone off the cop thirty in Brazil. So David Lammy
was filling in. He's basically Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister,
and here we have it where he was not able
to answer that question. Now Lammy refused to answer the
(01:58):
question because he knew this was coming. And it was
only after PMQ's was over that this story broke. And
it was quite clear that the Conservatives knew that something
was in the offing, as they say, and it's everywhere now,
So yeah, it's nobody knows and you just wonder what
is going on. Releasing someone from prison is a very
(02:19):
significant decision to take, ye, and we've managed to let
two foreign sex offenders go in the space of a fortnite.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Okay, now, talk to me about the politics of this, right,
because this has been fairly gritty for Stammer and his
party basically from the start. Are they playing this like
is there one in one out policy going to cut
the mustard after all of this or are they going
to be expected to go harder?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Look, I think they're really really going to have to
go harder on migration because guess who's making hay politically
on this, Nigel Farage. It is his selling point. It
is probably the only thing that is driving his popularity
in the polls. That and star unpopularity is the fact
that Forage says, make me Prime Minister and all these
(03:04):
people will be going home and more. You know, that's
the drum he keeps banging. And you look around England
now and you're seeing more and more flags Cross of
Saint George everywhere. People have had enough and Forage and reform.
If there were an election in the morning. They are
running away with it in the polls.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
What would going haden look like?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, I think for Starmer it needs mis ooken that
this can't go on, and that fifty thousand people coming
across in Dinghy's from France every single year, mostly men undocumented.
We don't know who they are, where they're from. Tackling
that and stopping that anyhow, people don't care. People don't
(03:51):
you know. We're seeing this small army of British lawyers,
human rights lawyers exploiting every single loophole possible to keep
these people in the country for as long as possible.
And Starmer used to be a human rights lawyer, so
surely he knows how this can be stopped. There are solutions.
I absolutely think there are solutions, but Stammer doesn't want
(04:12):
to go that far because he doesn't want to be
seen as extreme. If he doesn't, he will be out
of a job.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I couldn't agree with you more. Hey, thank you very much.
Into that's fascinating stuff. That's Into Brady, UK correspondent.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to
news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio,
In the Brady UK correspondence with that's hello Winda.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Heather, great to be back. How are you so?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Tell me about the latest six offender to be accidentally
released from jail.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, it feels the Groundhog Day here. We did this
story just a couple of weeks ago when they let
out a guy who was sexually assaulted a fourteen year
old girl. Led him out of prison early by accident,
and he even went back in and asked, are you
sure I should be out? And they pointed him in
the direction of a train station and said basically go,
and he did. We have another man hunt underway. I
(00:31):
think this one is even more damaging for the authorities
because we now find out he was released by accident,
a twenty four year old Algerian last Wednesday, and we
were told about it yesterday, and in fact the police
were told about it yesterday and you can imagine the
anger in policing having to now find this guy and
(00:51):
he's had a full week of a head start. So
it's shining a light really on the absolute state of
the prison system in the UK. The government are saying
that look, we just inherited this mess from the previous lot.
It's the Conservative's fault, but in all honesty, they've had
over a year now to try and make things better,
and it's clear that the prison system is on its knees. Meanwhile,
(01:14):
we don't know where a convicted sex offender is. He's
twenty four, he's from Algeria. He is due to be
deported when he finishes this sentence, so he's not exactly
going to walk in and hand himself in.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay, So do you have any grip at the moment
on how many of these people who shouldn't have been
released have been released? Like how many are out there?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, we don't, and that is the question that was
asked in Parliament yesterday during Prime Minister's questions. Starmer has
gone off the cop thirty in Brazil. So David Lammy
was filling in. He's basically Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister,
and here we have it where he was not able
to answer that question. Now Lammy refused to answer the
(01:58):
question because he knew this was coming. And it was
only after PMQ's was over that this story broke. And
it was quite clear that the Conservatives knew that something
was in the offing, as they say, and it's everywhere now,
So yeah, it's nobody knows and you just wonder what
is going on. Releasing someone from prison is a very
(02:19):
significant decision to take, ye, and we've managed to let
two foreign sex offenders go in the space of a fortnite.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Okay, now, talk to me about the politics of this, right,
because this has been fairly gritty for Stammer and his
party basically from the start. Are they playing this like
is there one in one out policy going to cut
the mustard after all of this or are they going
to be expected to go harder?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Look, I think they're really really going to have to
go harder on migration because guess who's making hay politically
on this, Nigel Farage. It is his selling point. It
is probably the only thing that is driving his popularity
in the polls. That and star unpopularity is the fact
that Forage says, make me Prime Minister and all these
(03:04):
people will be going home and more. You know, that's
the drum he keeps banging. And you look around England
now and you're seeing more and more flags Cross of
Saint George everywhere. People have had enough and Forage and reform.
If there were an election in the morning. They are
running away with it in the polls.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
What would going haden look like?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, I think for Starmer it needs mis ooken that
this can't go on, and that fifty thousand people coming
across in Dinghy's from France every single year, mostly men undocumented.
We don't know who they are, where they're from. Tackling
that and stopping that anyhow, people don't care. People don't
(03:51):
you know. We're seeing this small army of British lawyers,
human rights lawyers exploiting every single loophole possible to keep
these people in the country for as long as possible.
And Starmer used to be a human rights lawyer, so
surely he knows how this can be stopped. There are solutions.
I absolutely think there are solutions, but Stammer doesn't want
(04:12):
to go that far because he doesn't want to be
seen as extreme. If he doesn't, he will be out
of a job.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I couldn't agree with you more. Hey, thank you very much.
Into that's fascinating stuff. That's Into Brady, UK correspondent.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to
news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio,
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