GB News was halted for breaking news as they reported on the second migrant to be accidentally released.

GB News’ Tom Harwood clashed with Labour MP Alex Ballinger

GB News erupted in chaos as the programme was halted to deliver breaking news, which revealed that a second migrant had accidentally been released from prison. This comes after the now-deported Hadush Kebatu was wrongly released after he was jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman while living in an asylum hotel in Epping, Essex. In the latest blow for the Labour government, an Algerian prisoner, jailed for sex offences, has been accidentally released from Wandsworth prison.

GB News presenter Tom Harwood was joined by Labour MP Alex Ballinger and Conservative MP Julia Lopez. Addressing Ballinger, Harwood asked: “What do you say about the borders here, because perhaps there wouldn’t be such chaos in the prison system if we didn’t have thousands upon thousands of people arriving on our shores. “Going on many to commit crime, to commit violent crime, sexual crimes, ending up in the prisons and then being accidentally released.” The infuriated presenter raged: “Two of these people have now been accidentally released.”

Labour MP Alex Ballinger was questioned about the second accidental migrant release (Image: GB News )

The MP for Halesowen responded: “The borders are a serious problem and our new home secretary, who’s just come in, has taken a very hard line on the small boats and on illegal immigration.”

However, Lopez interjected: “What does that mean in practice?” To which the MP answered: “We’ve seen, I think, an example of a success of the returns deal to France. The person that did come back was immediately or very shortly returned.”

Hitting back at his response, Lopez fumed: “They came back!” As Ballinger continued: “That is a deterrence, people will not try it again. It costs thousands of pounds,” but the Tory MP slammed: “They get £500 in their pocket.”

Ballinger brushed off her statement and went on: “This is on top of 35,000 people being deported including more than 5000 foreign national offenders and there are lots of other things.

“The Government is working very hard to reduce the number of illegal immigrants coming into the country,” the politician added as he insisted: “There’s a lot of work to do, we’re not done yet, but it’s important.”

The Algerian criminal, who sources identified as Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, was accidentally released from HMP Wandsworth on October 29, but the blunder was only reported to the Metropolitan Police on Tuesday, giving him a “six-day head start”.

The prisoner was convicted in November 2024 of indecent exposure and sentenced to an 18-month community order and placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.

Kaddour-Cherif arrived in the UK in 2019, on a visitor visa, and the Home Office acknowledged he had overstayed in February 2020.