{"id":290158,"date":"2025-10-25T21:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/met-police-appeal-to-epping-sex-offender-to-hand-himself-in\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:05:13","slug":"met-police-appeal-to-epping-sex-offender-to-hand-himself-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/met-police-appeal-to-epping-sex-offender-to-hand-himself-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Met police appeal to Epping sex offender to hand himself in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/sqeIhfRReRQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Met police appeal to Epping sex offender to hand himself in\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sqeIhfRReRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Met police are searching for a former asylum seeker and convicted sex offender who was released from prison in error.<br \/>\nSubscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/guardianwiressub<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl and made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order. A senior Met police officer made a direct appeal to Kebatu to contact the force, which was handed responsibility for the investigation on Saturday morning, after he was released from HMP Chelmsford.<\/p>\n<p>Commander James Conway said: &#8216;We want to locate you in a safe and controlled way.&#8217; He added: &#8216;The best outcome for you is to make contact directly with us by either calling 999 or reporting yourself to a police station&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Met police urge Epping sex offender spotted in London to hand himself \u25ba https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/oct\/25\/sex-offender-freed-by-mistake-search-london<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. 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Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/guardianwiressub The Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl and made the subject of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":290159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[128872,128998,130466],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-290158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-former","tag-police","tag-searching"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Met police appeal to Epping sex offender to hand himself in | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Met police appeal to Epping sex offender to hand himself in for free, here on News ISC. 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