'A menace to society!' Epping asylum seeker release shows 'British state is broken'

The British state has been dubbed "a menace to society" after an Epping asylum seeker was accidentally released from prison.

Hadush Kebatu, who was thrown in an Essex jail for the sexual assault of a teenager, was erroneously set free by prison officers at HMP Chelmsford.

It was intended that the migrant was sent to an immigration detention centre and later deported on Friday.

Kebatu, an Ethiopian asylum seeker, boarded a train to London on Friday afternoon after his release from prison in an "error" and is now "at large" in the nation's Capital.

Discussing the "error" on GBN Breakfast with Stephen Dixon and Anne Diamond, editor of Spiked Tom Slater said: "I think this shows that the whole system is totally broken.

"If he had absconded, that would be bad enough. That would have been an oversight. Questions would have to be asked, inquiries would have to be made."

He added: "I think it's just adding to a sense that the public have, quite understandably, that the British state is so dysfunctional, it's actually become a kind of menace to public safety."

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