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An asylum seeker, Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, who was jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, was accidentally released from HMP Chelmsford instead of being transferred to an immigration detention centre. Kebatu, an Ethiopian national, was last seen in the London area after boarding a train from Chelmsford, prompting an…

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu had been jailed for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Essex.

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Seemingly what elevates this case to a matter of national security is that two Tory MPs were allegedly spied on

Home Office minister Dan Jarvis said the Prime Minister and other ministers were powerless to stop the Crown Prosecution Service shelving the case.

The decision on whether to approve the ‘super embassy’ has been pushed back to December

A decision is expected on October 21, although that could be pushed back with Steve Reed indicating it would come ‘within weeks’.

The document could have been key to the collapsed trial of two men accused of spying for China.

The former home secretary, who was in charge of MI5 at the time, said she wanted the case prosecuted and was ‘deeply frustrated’ when it collapsed

The shadow home secretary claimed the Government could have handed the papers over to prosecutors, but they ‘chose not to’.

Shadow ministers have announced far-reaching and often radical proposals – here is a roundup of some of them