Sky News approached Kaddour-Cherif moments before his arrest in Finsbury Park, north London, at 11.30am, but he claimed to be someone else.<\/p>\n
Follow the latest reaction<\/a><\/p>\n He was then approached by officers next to a police van and arrested.<\/p>\n One of the officers said Kaddour-Cherif had been identified as the missing prisoner because he had a “distinctive wonky nose”.<\/p>\n Image: Image: In the footage, the Algerian was shown shouting to people standing nearby in the street.<\/p>\n An officer then held up a photo of Kaddour-Cherif on a phone, comparing the image to the man arrested.<\/p>\n When officers asked him whether he knew why he was being arrested, Kaddour-Cherif replied: “I don’t know.”<\/p>\n Kaddour-Cherif, who was wearing a grey hoodie, black beanie and black backpack, said the mix-up at the prison was the fault of the authorities who released him.<\/p>\n “It’s not my f***ing fault”, Kaddour-Cherif shouted.<\/p>\n Image: Image: The Prison<\/a> Service informed the Metropolitan Police<\/a> about the error six days later – and a huge manhunt for him was launched.<\/p>\n It is not yet clear why it was nearly a week between the release at HMP Wandsworth and the police being informed that an offender was at large.<\/p>\n “At 11.23am on Friday, 7 November, a call was received from a member of the public reporting a sighting of a man they believed to be Brahim Kaddour-Cherif in the vicinity of Capital City College on Blackstock Road in Islington,” a Met Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n “Officers responded immediately and at 11.30am detained a man matching Cherif’s description. His identity was confirmed and he was arrested for being unlawfully at large.<\/p>\n “He was also arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker in relation to a previous unrelated incident. He has been taken into police custody. The Prison Service has been informed.”<\/p>\n Image: Kaddour-Cherif is a registered sex offender who was convicted of indecent exposure in November last year, following an incident in March.<\/p>\n At the time, he was given a community order and placed on the sex offenders register for five years.<\/p>\n He was then subsequently jailed for possessing a knife in June.<\/p>\n Image: Kaddour-Cherif came to the UK legally and is not an asylum seeker, but it is understood he overstayed his visit visa and deportation proceedings had been started.<\/p>\n He was accidentally freed five days after the wrongful release of convicted sex offender Hadush Kebatu<\/a>. Both Kaddour-Cherif and Kebatu were arrested in Finsbury Park.<\/p>\n![\"Sky](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/skynews-brahim-kaddour-cherif_7074685.jpg\")
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\n Sky News witnessed Brahim Kaddour-Cherif’s arrest<\/p>\n![\"Officers](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/skynews-brahim-kaddour-cherif_7074694.jpg\")
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\n Officers held his arrest picture next to Kaddour-Cherif’s head to confirm his identity<\/p>\n![\"Kaddour-Cherif](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/skynews-brahim-kaddour-cherif_7074711.jpg\")
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\n Kaddour-Cherif shouted at bystanders as officers arrested him<\/p>\n![\"Kaddour-Cherif](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/skynews-brahim-kaddour-cherif_7074716.jpg\")
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\n Kaddour-Cherif claimed to be someone else when he was arrested<\/p>\n![\"Kaddour-Cherif](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/skynews-brahim-kaddour-cherif_7074699.jpg\")
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\n Kaddour-Cherif shouted it was ‘not my f***ing fault’ that he was mistakenly released<\/p>\n![\"He](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/skynews-brahim-kaddour-cherif_7074623.jpg\")
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\n He was wrongly freed from Wandsworth prison. Pic: Met Police<\/p>\n