David Lammy is facing serious questions over whether he misled MPs after he refused to confirm the accidental release of an illegal migrant from a south London prison.
The Justice Secretary failed on five separate occasions to admit that another foreign prisoner had been released in error when questioned in the Commons, prompting accusations that he was being “dishonest” with the public.
The details emerged after the Metropolitan Police released a statement alerting the public that a manhunt was launched after 24-year-old Algerian Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth on October 29, but the mistake was only reported to the police on Tuesday.
It comes after failed asylum seeker Hadush Kebatu, who was convicted of sexual assault, was wrongly released from HMP Chelmsford on October 24.
The issue of a second “asylum seeker” being released in error was repeatedly raised during Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons during which Lammy was standing in for Sir Keir Starmer.
The Justice Secretary refused to answer on five separate occasions from Badenoch’s stand in, shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge. Instead Lammy chose to lambast the prisons system that the Labour Government had inherited from the Conservatives.
It was only after his appearance in the Commons had concluded, with media reports stating that a second manhunt was underway, that Lammy broke his silence, issuing a statement that said he was “absolutely outraged” and revealing that his officials have been “working through the night to take him back to prison”.
Lammy knew of release previous evening
Justice Secretary and deputy Prime Minister David Lammy during the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions. Lammy made history by becoming the first black man to take PMQs (Photo by House of Commons/AFP)One Labour MP responded: “Bloody hell, what just happened? Did he just mislead the House?”
Another senior MP told The i Paper that it “did not look good for him”.
It is understood that the Justice Secretary had been made aware of the mistaken release on Tuesday night, but believed it would have been irresponsible to reveal it in the Commons as details were yet to emerge.
Lammy is also believed to have been unsure as to whether the Conservatives were referring to the same case as they repeatedly referred to an “asylum seeker”, which Kaddour-Cherif is not.
He is an illegal immigrant who entered the UK legally on a visit visa in 2019 but had overstayed their visa with an overstayer case created in February 2020.He was in the initial stages of being deported.
The inmate’s mistaken release last Wednesday came just days after stronger security checks were put in place in prisons and an independent investigation was launched into releases in error following the blunder in Kebatu’s case.
Why did it take a week to notify police?
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