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One of two men freed in error from UK prison hands himself in · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: This is BBC News. I'm Reginie Vibinard and we'll bring
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  Speaker 1: you some breaking news that's just come into us from
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  Speaker 1: police in Surrey and Billy Smith, the thirty five year
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  Speaker 1: old prisoner who was mistakenly released from Wandsworth Prison earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the week, has handed himself back in. Sorry. Police
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  Speaker 1: has just posted on its Facebook page saying we're canceling
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  Speaker 1: our appeal to help find a wanted thirty five year
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  Speaker 1: old William Smith, who was released in error from HMP
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  Speaker 1: Wandsworth on Monday, the third of November. The statement goes
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  Speaker 1: on to say Smith handed himself into HMP Wandsworth today
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  Speaker 1: that is, of course, the sixth of November. It ends
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  Speaker 1: by saying we thank everyone who shared our appeal and
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  Speaker 1: we now ask that any posts or photos are removed now.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. William or Billy Smith as he's also known,
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  Speaker 1: was one of two men who was mistakenly released from
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  Speaker 1: prison on Monday. The other man, Algerian sex offender Brahem
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  Speaker 1: Kadore Sharif, remains on the run still as well, but
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  Speaker 1: significantly one of the two men mistakenly released on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: William Smith Billy Smith, also known as has turned himself
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  Speaker 1: in now he was serving or he's been sentenced for
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  Speaker 1: four years for multiple counts of fraud. Some reports, they're
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  Speaker 1: not confirmed at the moment by us saying that he
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  Speaker 1: turned up at the prison and said I am the
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  Speaker 1: prisoner they are looking for. But that statement from Sorry
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  Speaker 1: Police does say that he turned himself in, and there
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  Speaker 1: saw some images appearing online as well which appeared to
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  Speaker 1: show Billy Smith being photographed as he handed himself in
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  Speaker 1: to the police, wearing blue and smoking a cigarette. We'll
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  Speaker 1: hopefully be able to bring you those pictures. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're just joining us here on BBC News, some significant
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  Speaker 1: breaking news from here in the UK, and that is
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  Speaker 1: one of two prisoners who was mistakenly released earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the week sparking a large manhunt has handed himself in.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just remind you of the details on that. It's
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  Speaker 1: William also known as Billy Smith, who was mistakenly released
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the week. He was sentenced to four years
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  Speaker 1: on counts of multiple fraud earlier in the week and
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  Speaker 1: we are hearing that he has now handed himself in.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry Police has confirmed that. Now. There were reports, of
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  Speaker 1: course that one of the reasons why he was mistakenly
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  Speaker 1: released was because his co defendant had the same surname
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  Speaker 1: Smith and there was a mix up. But of course
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  Speaker 1: this has raised a lot of questions about prisoner's being
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  Speaker 1: released early by mistake, and we know that the prison's
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  Speaker 1: minister has summoned prison governors in England and Wales for
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  Speaker 1: a meeting to try and get some answers on this.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Minister, I should say, Alex Davis Jones conceding that
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  Speaker 1: the issues in prisons at England and Wales won't be
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  Speaker 1: fixed overnight. Been a lord of criticism about the early
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  Speaker 1: release from the Shadow Justice Secretary, Robert Jenrik, saying that
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  Speaker 1: the situation was an utter shambles, but some commentators pointing
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  Speaker 1: out that even under the previous Conservative government, prisoners were
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  Speaker 1: released early. All of this, of course has put a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pressure on the Deputy Prime Minister and the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Secretary, David Lammy, after he had promised to put
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  Speaker 1: in extra checks to prevent similar cases of early release.
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  Speaker 1: After the early release of Hadouche Kubatu, who was released
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  Speaker 1: from Chelmsford journally in the week, he's now of course
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  Speaker 1: been deported just another reminder of that breaking news. The
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  Speaker 1: man on the screen. There is Billy William Smith who
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  Speaker 1: has handed himself into police after a manhunt. He was
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  Speaker 1: mistakenly released earlier in the week. He was sentenced two
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  Speaker 1: four years for multiple fraud. A statement there from Surrey Police,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just bring it to you once more. It says
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  Speaker 1: we are canceling our appeal to help find wanted thirty
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  Speaker 1: five year old William Smith, who was released in error
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  Speaker 1: from HMP Wandsworth on Monday, the third of November. The
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  Speaker 1: statement goes on to say that Smith handed himself into
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  Speaker 1: HMP Wandsworth today the sixth of November, and it thanks
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  Speaker 1: everyone who shared the appeal. And there's some reports online
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  Speaker 1: that appear to show a picture of him outside the
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  Speaker 1: prison wearing what looks like a blue fleece and blue
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  Speaker 1: tracksuit bottoms, handing himself in And according to reports that
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  Speaker 1: are unconfirmed at the moment he turned up at the prison,
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  Speaker 1: he was dropped off in a van and said I
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  Speaker 1: am the prisoner they are looking for. And reports say
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  Speaker 1: that he handed himself shortly after ten point thirty in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. We'll have more on that breaking story when
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  Speaker 1: we get it. But one of the two prisoners who
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  Speaker 1: was the subject of a policeman hunt here in the
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  Speaker 1: UK has turned himself in