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Good evening. This is Mandy Baker at Westminster, where the Justice Secretary David Lamy sets out government plans to stop prisoners being mistakenly released.

But the Conservatives aren't impressed.

Like increasing numbers of criminals in our jails. The Justice Secretary just doesn't know

whether he's coming or going. The government says the BBC must fight to restore trust after

Donald Trump threatens a billion-dollar lawsuit. The BBC is not just a broadcaster. It is a national institution that

belongs to us all. And a senior legal figure issues a warning about the consequences if the courts

aren't overhauled. I truly believe that we risk the collapse of the system as we presently have it.

And we would then fail in our duty to victims, to witnesses,

to defendants. But first, standing in for Sakeir Stama at Prime Minister's questions last week,

the Justice Secretary David Lamy repeatedly swerved conservative questions about whether any

asylum seeker had been accidentally released from prison since Hadush Kabatu was mistakenly let out last month.

Kabatu was serving time for two sexual assaults,

one on a 14-year-old girl while he was staying at an asylum hotel at Epping in Essex.

In fact, last Wednesday a foreign prisoner was at large.

Brahim Kudur Sharif had been freed from Wandsworth Jail in error,

and David Lamy admitted he'd been told.

Details about the case was still emerging throughout Wednesday.

Importantly, my officials had not had confirmation about whether or not he was an asylum seeker.

Indeed, it was not until later that afternoon that the Home Office confirmed

the Ministry of Justice that he was not.

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