Asylum seeker accused of sexual assaults ‘escaped custody during medical check’
Sussex Police released two pictures of the man who ran away from a medical appointment on Wednesday (Picture: Sussex Police)
An asylum seeker who was accused of sexual assaults on a pair of teenage girls escaped custody during a medical check-up yesterday, according to reports.
The Daily Mail said the man, identified by the paper as 22-year-old Pirouz Mofrad, was missing overnight before being tracked down today.
He was reportedly on a Sexual Risk Order when he made off from a health facility in Bexhill, East Sussex, on Wednesday morning.
The story is the latest to present serious questions about the ability of the justice system to keep potentially dangerous individuals away from the public.
Yesterday, it was reported that two men – Brahim Kaddour-Cherif and Billy Smith – had been accidentally released from HMP Wandsworth in south London.
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Both incidents came less than two weeks after former asylum seeker and convicted sex offender Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly freed when he was due to be deported.
He said: ‘Victims deserve better and the public deserve answers.
‘That is why I have already brought in the strongest checks ever to clamp down on such failures and ordered an independent investigation, led by Dame Lynne Owens to uncover what went wrong and address the rise in accidental releases which has persisted for too long.’
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