'Someone must be held accountable!' Epping campaigner blasts David Lammy for 'insulting' response to second mistaken release of a foreign criminal

After being pressed on the matter five times during Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon, the Deputy Prime Minister said in a statement that he was "outraged and appalled" at the error.

He said: "The Metropolitan Police is leading an urgent manhunt, and my officials have been working through the night to take him back to prison. Victims deserve better, and the public deserves answers.

"This latest incident exposes deeper flaws across the failing criminal justice system we inherited."

Delivering her verdict on the release, Ms White told GB News: "It is totally insulting for him to say that he doesn't know about it. How does he not know, it's his job to know.

"And if he doesn't know, then again, why is he doing that job? Somebody's got to be held accountable."

Stating the high figures of mistaken releases of prisoners across the country, she added: "We already know that 262 people got released mistakenly last year alone. That is an excessive amount.

"One is too many, 262 is just outrageous. Somebody has got to be held accountable.

"And you're right, DEI, the world has gone mad now with DEI."

Hitting out at the state of Britain's justice system, Ms White fumed: "Where is the justice system? Why aren't there stronger sentences? Why are they allowed to be released early?

"The guy who was released early, the one who committed the crimes in Epping the other week, he was then detained, but then he was deported and they gave him £500.

"And let's not forget, people in this country might say £500 isn't a lot of money, that's a year's wages where he's from.

"So he's just been given a year's wages for nothing, for coming here and sexually assaulting a young girl, it's unacceptable."

She added: "The crimes in this country are as severe in theirs.

"In fact, they'll be persecuted in their own countries, so they are fully aware that what they're doing is wrong."

Police have launched a manhunt after the 24-year-old Algerian man, understood to be Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, was accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth in south-west London on October 29.

In a statement, a Met Police spokesman said: "Shortly after 13:00hrs on Tuesday, 4 November, the Met was informed by the Prison Service that a prisoner had been released in error from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday, 29 October.

"The prisoner is a 24-year-old Algerian man. Officers are carrying out urgent enquiries in an effort to locate him and return him to custody."

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