<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>For the second time in two weeks, </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/london" rel="" target="" title="London"><span>London</span></a><span> </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/police" rel="" target="" title="police"><span>police</span></a><span> are searching for a foreign </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/prison" rel="" target="" title="prisoner"><span>prisoner</span></a><span> accidentally released from custody.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Metropolitan Police confirmed at lunchtime on Wednesday (Wednesday night AEDT) that a 24-year-old Algerian man was released from His Majesty's Prison Wandsworth, in south-west London, on October 29.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Met said the Prison Service informed police of the release just after 1pm on Tuesday.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Officers are carrying out urgent enquiries in an effort to locate him and return him to custody," they said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Met Police did not name the Algerian man or say what crime he had been charged with or convicted of.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It followed the case of convicted sex offender and asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, whose release from a prison in Chelmsford, Essex, embarrassed the government last month.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The confirmation from the Met came minutes after Secretary of State for Justice David Lammy had repeatedly refused to assure the parliament there had been no more accidental releases since then.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/met-police-searching-for-another-mistakenly-released-foreign-prisoner/d1901418-980e-48dc-ac2a-cc6786239eb2" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/uk--hadush-gerberslasie-kebatu-police-hunt-for-an-imprisoned-asylum-seeker-released-in-error/5e2b74ff-a3e2-4ef8-b506-647076100fc8" rel="" target="" title="Kebatu was re-arrested in the Finsbury Park area in north London on October"><span>Kebatu was re-arrested in the Finsbury Park area in north London on October</span></a><span> 26, just three days before the second prisoner was freed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As Deputy Prime Minister, Lammy was taking Prime Minister's Questions in the absence of Labour leader Keir Starmer.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Opposition defence spokesperson James Cartlidge asked Lammy five times to reassure the house that "no other asylum seeking offender has been accidentally let out of prison".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He refused, instead attacking the Tories over the state the prisons system was in when Labour came into office and pointing to an ongoing review of the mistaken releases being undertaken by Dame Lynne Owens.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Get a grip man," Lammy shouted over the roar of the boisterous chamber.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I know I'm the Justice Secretary. That's why I'm at the dispatch box also as deputy prime minister.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>" … Dame Anne Owens is a former deputy commissioner in London, head of the NCA [National Crime Agency], it is for her to get to the bottom of that work."</span></div></div>