{"id":239228,"date":"2025-10-25T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239228\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:59:07","slug":"epping-migrant-sex-offender-likely-in-london-says-met-police-as-it-takes-over-manhunt-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239228\/","title":{"rendered":"Epping migrant sex offender ‘likely in London’, says Met Police as it takes over manhunt – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finding Kebatu is a top priority, Met commander says – statement in fullpublished at 13:00 BST<\/p>\n

13:00 BSTBreaking<\/p>\n

\"\"Daniel Sandford
UK correspondent<\/p>\n

Met officers have been supporting the Essex Police-led operation to locate Kebatu since it was confirmed that he boarded a London-bound train from Chelmsford Station at 12:41hrs on Friday.<\/p>\n

Extensive enquiries have been carried out in the hours since and based on those enquiries, there is a high degree of confidence that Kebatu is likely still in the London area. <\/p>\n

As a result, responsibility for the manhunt was transferred from Essex Police to the Met shortly after 11:30hrs today. <\/p>\n

Here’s the full statement from Commander James Conway:<\/p>\n

“Finding Hadush Kebatu is a top priority. <\/p>\n

“The manhunt is being led by an experienced Senior Investigating Officer. He has teams from the Specialist Crime Command with expertise in tracking down wanted people at his disposal, as well as other resources from across the Met. <\/p>\n

“We’ve confirmed that Kebatu got off the London-bound train at Stratford station. <\/p>\n

“We are examining CCTV from that area and further afield, including on the transport network, to establish information about his subsequent movements. <\/p>\n

“We will provide further updates when we can, but I hope the press and the public will understand why it would be unhelpful to the effectiveness of the manhunt if we were to provide a detailed running commentary.<\/p>\n

“Anyone who sees Kebatu, or has information about his whereabouts, should call 999 immediately.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finding Kebatu is a top priority, Met commander says – statement in fullpublished at 13:00 BST 13:00 BSTBreaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-239228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}