Police have launched a manhunt for Hadush Kebatu, the Epping hotel asylum seeker whose sexual assault on a school girl sparked a wave of protests across the UK.
Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre to be deported, but was mistakenly freed.
A senior justice source said: "He has been released in error - this is the mother of all f**k ups. It is down to human error, with the wrong paperwork on it or something," reports the Sun.