"All I can do now is try and pick up the pieces that the government will keep breaking of my daughter. All they do is keep breaking us as a family. Like from July, from that very first phone call until now, we've just been let down relentlessly, time and time again. We haven't had a single apology from the government. We haven't had a single apology or any recognition whatsoever. It's just been failure after failure after failure. And, you know, I'm disappointed. More than anything, I'm disgusted."
"I couldn't sleep because I was so worried he was going to come back to Epping looking for me. I didn't want to be in Epping because I was so scared I was going to see him and he would recognise me."
Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian national, was jailed in September for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and another woman and sentenced to 12 months. He was accidentally released a month later, prompting a two-day manhunt and his rearrest on 26 October in Finsbury Park after travelling from Chelmsford. He was deported two days later and received £500 after threatening to disrupt the process. An independent investigation into the wrongful release is being led by Dame Lynne Owens. The victim reports fear and sleeplessness, and her father says the government's handling has repeatedly failed the family and offered no apology.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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