27/10/2025
Today in Parliament
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sean Curran reports from Westminster as MPs demand answers about how a failed migrant and convicted sex offender was accidentally released from prison last week.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.1 | Order! Order. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Monday the 27th of October, when the Justice Secretary David Lamy said human error appeared to have led to the mistaken release of a failed asylum |
| 0:22.1 | seeker who was a convicted sex offender. |
| 0:24.7 | Mr Kabatu's victims are rightly outraged about what has happened and I'm livid on their behalf. |
| 0:33.2 | His conservative Shaday, Robert Jenrick, says it's not a one-off blunder. |
| 0:38.2 | Calamity Lammy strikes again. |
| 0:41.9 | It's a national embarrassment. |
| 0:44.9 | Also tonight, MPs and peers get their first chance to question officials about the collapse of the China spying case. |
| 0:52.5 | And as a North Sea oil firm goes into administration, the SNP has questions for the energy security minister. |
| 1:00.7 | Does he have any idea how it feels to be in Aberdeen just now? |
| 1:03.6 | Does he have any idea how this is just another hammer blow? |
| 1:08.0 | But first, what went wrong at Chelmsford Prison last week |
| 1:11.8 | when a migrant sex offender was released by accident? |
| 1:15.9 | The media has spent the last three days asking that question. |
| 1:19.5 | The Justice Secretary wants answers too. |
| 1:22.0 | In a statement to MPs, David Lammy explained |
| 1:25.0 | that things had gone wrong when Haddish Kabatou, whose crimes |
| 1:29.3 | led to protests in Epping in Essex, was due to be moved. |
| 1:33.4 | Mr Kabatu was scheduled to be transferred from HMP Charlestford to an immigration removal centre, |
| 1:40.2 | from which he was to be deported. Due to what appears to have been human error, |
| 1:47.3 | he was instead released into the community at 10.25 a.m. |
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