Father of girl, 14, who was assaulted by Migrant Sex attacker says ‘justice system has let us down’ as police comb London after Asylum Seeker was freed by mistake and handed £76 to live on

An asylum seeker who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl is still at large, as the police manhunt continues today. 

Police are combing London in search for sex offender Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 41, after he was released from prison by mistake yesterday. 

Kebatu was seen boarding a London-bound train at Chelmsford station at 12.41pm yesterday afternoon. 

The father of the girl who was assaulted by Kebatu turned up at Chelmsford jail visibly upset yesterday and begging for answers, telling Sky News he felt ‘let down’ by the system and ‘frustrated’ at the idea that Kebatu had been able to escape prison after attacking his daughter this summer. 

‘The justice system has let us down’, he said.   

Kebatu, who was jailed for a year just one month ago after bein

g found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old and a woman, has £76 on him – the discharge grant he was handed by the prison to cover his first week’s expenses. 

Bungling prison staff on Friday wrongly freed the ‘dangerous’ Channel migrant back into the community rather than to a Home Office immigration centre, where he was supposed to be deported. 

Essex Police have now said the asylum seeker was last seen in London, adding that enquiries are ‘continuing at pace this morning’. 

‘Officers worked throughout the night to track his movements, including scouring hours of CCTV footage, and this work continues today,’ the force said.

‘Our enquires show that he was last seen in the London area, and this is our focus.’

British Transport Police are now scouring CCTV footage in a race to find the released sex offender.  

District Judge Christopher Williams said that Kebatu posed a ‘significant risk of reoffending’ when he was given a 12 month sentence in September.

The UK Borders Act 2007 states that a deportation order must be made when a foreign national has been convicted of an offence and received a custodial sentence of at least 12 months.

It has left Labour facing fresh questions about its handling of the migrant crisis amid accusations of ‘breathtaking incompetence’.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said it showed ‘a level of incompetence that beggars belief’.

Police said that the Ethiopian – whose offences led to protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex this summer – was seen boarding a London-bound train at Chelmsford station at 12.41pm.