Timeline: How did we get here?published at 13:46 GMT
13:46 GMT
If you’re just joining our live coverage, 24-year-old Algerian Brahim Kaddour-Cherif has been arrested.
Here’s how we got here:
29 October: Kaddour-Cherif is mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth.
13:00 on 4 November: Six days later, the Prison Service informs the Metropolitan Police that a prisoner had been released in error on 29 October.
Overnight into 5 November: Justice Secretary David Lammy is informed about the accidental release.
Around 11:45 on 5 November: The Conservatives reportedly find out that a wrongly released prisoner is at large.
12:00 on 5 November: Lammy repeatedly refuses to answer when asked by shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge whether any more asylum seekers had been wrongly released since the high-profile case of an Epping sex offender last month.
12:43 on 5 November: Cartlidge tells the House of Commons that a second imprisoned migrant had been mistakenly freed – Lammy declined to respond.
13:41 on 5 November: Lammy releases a statement saying he is “outraged and appalled by the foreign criminal wanted by the police” and promises that an “urgent manhunt” is under way.
16:06 on 5 November: Surrey Police launch a manhunt after it was made aware of a second prisoner, William Smith, being released by mistake on Monday.
16:41 on 5 November: The Metropolitan Police confirm a search is under way for Algerian national Brahim Kaddour-Cherif.
6 November: William Smith hands himself in to HMP Wandsworth.
11:30 on 7 November: Kaddour-Cherif is arrested in north London, police say.