A prisoner who was accidentally released committed another offence on the same day while on the run.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was let out of custody last Monday.
He has since been charged with one count of stalking a woman on the same day.
The man faces a Crown Court trial next year for offences including coercive control, intentional strangulation, and common assault.
The Ministry of Justice told The Sun the man had indeed been wrongly released and had since been rearrested in Leicestershire.
Officers confirmed the 34-year-old man had been arrested late on Tuesday night.
He has now been returned to prison.
Justice Secretary David Lammy said on Tuesday: “I have been informed this afternoon that HMPPS (His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service) are investigating a further case of a potential release in error on 3rd November who may still be at large.”
David Lammy has come under fire over prison releases
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PAHis Conservative counterpart Robert Jenrick told The Sun: “This is shocking but it’s not surprising. The Government’s incompetence has put the British people at risk.
“David Lammy must now come clean about how many other prisoners have been charged for alleged crimes while they’ve been on the run.”
Mr Lammy admitted last week there is a “mountain to climb” to tackle the crisis in the prisons system.
Prisons minister Lord James Timpson said on Monday there is “no quick fix” to releases in error, and it is “going to take time to get it right.”
Hadush Kebatu was accidentally released
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Downing Street has admitted it was “shocking” that 91 inmates have been wrongly set free since April this year as the Government faces mounting pressure over releases in error.
The data, released by the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday, shows 91 accidental releases took place between April 1 and October 31 this year.
A spokesman told reporters: “These numbers, they are symptomatic of a system that the Government inherited, of a prison system under severe strain, a failing criminal justice system.
“The public are right to be shocked by these cases. While they are rare, they have been rising year-on-year from an average of nine per month in 2023 to 17 per month the next year. And we’re clear that you can’t fix the prisons crisis overnight, but we have taken immediate action, including tougher new release checks, calling in prison governors, sending in tech experts.”
Algerian national Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth in London on October 29, but was re-arrested on Friday after a police manhunt. He was serving a sentence for trespass with intent to steal, but had previously been convicted for indecent exposure.
Another prisoner, Billy Smith, 35, convicted of fraud offences, was also accidentally freed from the same prison last Monday, but handed himself back in on Thursday.
Stronger security checks were announced for prisons and an independent investigation was launched into releases in error after Hadush Kebatu was accidentally freed on October 24, prompting a three-day manhunt.
The Ethiopian national had been jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman, but was freed by mistake instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre.
Some 262 inmates were mistakenly let out in the year to March 2025, a 128 per cent increase on the 115 in the previous 12 months, separate Government figures also show.
Mr Lammy confirmed in the Commons on Tuesday that the error leading to the mistaken release of Kaddour-Cherif happened in September, before the tougher security checks came in.
“He was charged with burglary at Snaresbrook Crown Court and a warrant was issued to HMP Pentonville for his remand,” he told MPs.
“Contrary to the set down process, it was then forwarded by email to HMP Wandsworth when Mr Kaddour-Cherif was transferred, however, staff did not pick it up and he was released on October 29.”