Epping migrant sex offender deported and handed £500 after huge blunder

Epping hotel illegal migrant and sex offender Hadush Kebatu was handed £500 of taxpayer cash as he was deported, after threatening to disrupt the removal process.

The reports come after the Home Office confirmed this morning that he had finally been deported back to Ethopia, following his farcicle mistaken release from prison last week.

It's understood that the Home Office was forced to hand him the cash in order to ensure they could finally get him out of the country.

Mr Kebatu was escorted onto a plane by guards at Heathrow Airport late last night, bringing to the end the sorry saga for the Home Office and Ministry of Justice.

Mr Kebatu was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre. According to the Home Office, sparking a nation-wide manhunt.

It is understood that he was forcibly deported by a team of five escorts who accompanied Mr Kebatu on the flight to Ethiopa.

Despite his lawyer claiming during the trial that he wished to be sent back home, Mr Kebatu then began threatening to dsrupt the removal.

This sparked a last-minute Home Office decision to hand him a discretionary £500 payment, which was believed to be better than the alternative of a slower and more expensive process.

Home Office sources believed that failing to hand over the cash would have led to a further detention, a new flight and potentially further costly legal claims.

However they insisted the decision was made independently of the department's ministers and by the removal team.

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