The second Wandsworth prisoner on the run has been arrested after being mistakenly released.
The Metropolitan Police said Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, a 24-year-old Algerian man, has been arrested in Islington, north London after being accidentally freed last Wednesday from HMP Wandsworth.
In an update on social media, they wrote: ‘Officers have arrested Brahim Kaddour-Cherif who was released in error from HMP Wandsworth on October 29.
‘Cherif was spotted by a member of the public in Blackhorse Lane, Islington just before 11.30am. Officers responded immediately and he was arrested.’
The Metropolitan Police previously said Kaddour-Cherif, who also goes by Ibrahim, was convicted in November 2024 of indecent exposure relating to an incident in March that year.
He was handed an 18-month community order and placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.
Kaddour-Cherif’s most recent prison sentence was for trespass with intent to steal.
Metro understands he recently appeared in court on a charge of failing to comply with sex offender requirements.
Metro also understands that Kaddour-Cherif is not an asylum seeker and entered the UK legally on a visitor’s visa in 2019 but overstayed. He was in the process of being deported when he was accidentally freed from prison.
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