Justice Secretary David Lammy has finally come out of hiding to perform damage control over the accidental prisoner release debacle. It went as well as you would expect. It’s everyone’s fault, apart from David Lammy’s…
“The release this week that caused concern was actually before I introduced those checks just a few weeks ago following the release of Kebatu. And the other prisoner was a court mistake not in fact a prison mistake. But the truth is I’ve only been in post two months.”
Lammy promised on the 27th October, when Hadush Kebatu’s release became known, that the stronger checks would be “immediate.” Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was released on the 29th. That means Lammy lied when he said last month that the checks were already in place – you can’t just say things…
He then blamed one of the releases on the courts (also part of his Justice brief). He stopped short of directly blaming his predecessor Shabana Mahmood though…





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