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🗓️ 27 October 2025
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Today, the government has announced an independent investigation into how a migrant sex offender was released from prison.
Speaking in the House of Commons the Justice Secretary David Lammy told mps that the release appears to have been “human error”. The Conservatives have called the mistake a “national embarrassment”. Adam and Chris are joined by HM Inspectorate of Prisons.
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New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Adriana Urbano. The social producer was Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Stephen Bailey. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Chris is here so we can follow up our chat about Carefully cheese on Friday. |
| 0:09.6 | Oh, terrific. I'm looking forward to this. |
| 0:11.5 | Did you have any nice cheese over the weekend? |
| 0:13.5 | I had a bit of mature cheddar, which is my go-to. |
| 0:17.9 | Not Wensley-Dale? |
| 0:19.1 | No, not this time. |
| 0:20.0 | I do. I do love Wensley-D but mature cheddar is the most frequent occupier of our fridge. And if this is confusing you, Chris and I had a conversation on Friday about Carefilly cheese. Chris then said that in Kirfili, where they just had the by-election for the Seneh, there is a statue to the cheese. And I said, has anyone else seen a statue to a food product in the UK? And newscaster Rebecca kind of has. Oh. She got in touch. She said, here in Melton Mowbray, can you tell where this is going? Oh, yes. We have a pork pie bench in the street just outside the old pork pie shop. You know what? I've sat on that bench. I should have thought of it. Of course you have. Yes, no, I have. I have. I should have thought of that. Rebecca, thanks for getting in touch. That is tremendous. Well, Rebecca's email continues, I was unable to go and get a photo, because I did request photographic evidence for people. She says, because we have a new 10-week-old puppy, |
| 1:27.7 | so we can't take him into town until he's had his next injection. Well, that is understandable from the puppy's perspective. But I have actually, yes, I've seen it. I've sat on it. Were you eating a pork pie when you're sitting on it? Yes. I think I might have finished it by the time we got to the, yeah, by the time we got Do you think you were filming? |
| 1:29.3 | No, no, I wasn't. This was a, this was in... |
| 1:30.3 | A private visit. |
| 1:31.3 | It was. Port pie was fantastic. And Rebecca couldn't go and get a picture, but we did use a well-known visual mapping software to do a street view version of it. And I can confirm there is a pork pie bench there. I mean, it actually looks like a barrel with like a sort of like one of those cake, cupcake casings around here. Have a BBC verified geolocation? I'm doing my own BBC verify here. But you can see it definitely has the crimping style of a pork pie. |
| 2:00.9 | Oh, on the kind of the top. |
| 2:02.6 | On the actual seating bit, yes. Oh yeah, you need that. It's definitely a crimped bench, which recalls the delicious delicacy, which I'm now feel like I've just eaten. Like I can almost taste it in my mouth. Yeah, I'm getting the mouth-watering thing going on here. Oh, yes. Anyway, the only thing that makes our mouth water more than pork pies is news. |
| 2:19.7 | So let's get on with the day's news in this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tattle tail in the class. Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody. Then daddy has to sometimes do strong language. |
| 2:35.2 | Next time in Moscow. |
| 2:36.8 | I feel delulu with no salulu. |
| 2:38.6 | Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And it is Chris at Westminster. And we're going to be focusing this episode on the release of Hadish Kabatu, the immigrant sex offender |
| 2:52.3 | who was meant to be deported but was instead let out. And okay, the manhunt for him is over now, |
| 2:58.5 | but the political blame game is just getting going. And we will be joined by somebody who's |
| 3:02.5 | got a lot of experience in the prison and justice area who can help us work away through it. |
| 3:08.4 | But before that, Chris, we're recording this episode of newscast at 635 on Monday evening. |
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