{"id":127056,"date":"2025-11-07T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/127056\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:56:08","slug":"algerian-sex-offender-mistakenly-released-from-wandsworth-prison-arrested-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/127056\/","title":{"rendered":"Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison arrested – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timeline: How did we get here?published at 13:46 GMT<\/p>\n

13:46 GMT<\/p>\n

If you’re just joining our live coverage, 24-year-old Algerian Brahim Kaddour-Cherif has been arrested. <\/p>\n

Here’s how we got here:<\/p>\n

29 October: Kaddour-Cherif is mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Overnight into 5 November: Justice Secretary David Lammy is informed about the accidental release.<\/p>\n

Around 11:45 on 5 November: The Conservatives reportedly find out that a wrongly released prisoner is at large.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

12:43 on 5 November: Cartlidge tells the House of Commons that a second imprisoned migrant had been mistakenly freed – Lammy declined to respond.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

16:41 on 5 November: The Metropolitan Police confirm a search is under way for Algerian national Brahim Kaddour-Cherif.<\/p>\n

6 November: William Smith hands himself in to HMP Wandsworth.<\/p>\n

11:30 on 7 November: Kaddour-Cherif is arrested in north London, police say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timeline: How did we get here?published at 13:46 GMT 13:46 GMT If you’re just joining our live coverage,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-127056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}