Crime Solicitors Nottingham

Four other inmates have been wrongly released from custody in the past week, following the mistaken release of a convicted sex offender from HMP Chelmsford.

Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian national, was freed from the Essex prison on Friday instead of being transferred to an immigration detention centre. The migrant sex offender — who had been living at the Bell Hotel in Epping when he assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman — travelled to London after his release. He was recaptured in Finsbury Park on Sunday morning following a two-day manhunt.

Paul Gallagher, 59, of East Finchley, north London, has denied rape and a series of other violent sexual offences. The charges, brought by Scotland Yard following an investigation that began last year, were first reported by The Telegraph in July.

A taxpayer has been criticised by a judge after relying on an artificial intelligence chatbot to fight his tax case in court.

Marc Gunnarsson appealed against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which sought to recover £12,918 in self-employment support payments he had claimed during the pandemic. Representing himself at the Upper Tribunal, Mr Gunnarsson used AI to draft his written submissions. However, the chatbot invented three tribunal cases that did not exist, which HMRC spotted in his skeleton argument filed the day before the hearing.