David Lammy has claimed he is “outraged and appalled‘ by the accidental release of a second migrant, just an hour after he refused to answer questions about this topic in the Commons.
“I am absolutely outraged and appalled by the mistaken release of a foreign criminal wanted by the police. The Metropolitan Police is leading an urgent manhunt, and my officials have been working through the night to take him back to prison.
Victims deserve better and the public deserve answers. That is why I have already brought in the strongest checks ever to clamp down on such failures and ordered an independent investigation, led by Dame Lynne Owens to uncover what went wrong and address the rise in accidental releases which has persisted for too long.
This latest incident exposes deeper flaws across the failing criminal justice system we inherited. Dame Lynne Owens’ investigation will leave no stone unturned to identify these issues, so we can fix them, improve safeguards and ensure the public is properly protected”
If his officials have been working through the night on this, why were Downing Street seemingly blindsided by the story after DPMQs? Lammy knew, and deliberately avoided the question by blowing up and screaming for half an hour…
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