Video: Hunt for Algerian sex offender freed from jail by mistake | News

Police have released earlier arrest footage of escaped prisoner Brahim Kaddour-Cherif and efforts to capture him are continuing.

An urgent police investigation is ongoing to find Cherif, a 24-year-old Algerian national who was mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth last week.

The registered sex offender is known to use other variations of his name, including Ibrahim, and is believed to have links to Tower Hamlets and is also known to frequent the Westminster area.

Cherif was convicted in November 2024 of indecent exposure relating to an incident that occurred in March of that year. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and placed on the sex offenders register for five years.

Anyone who sees Cherif is asked not to approach him but to call 999 immediately.

Anyone with further information about his movements should call 101.