Met police take over search for Epping sex offender after London sighting – as it happened

This live blog is now closed, you can read our full report hereThe accidental release of the asylum seeker was a “mind-blowing” blunder, says the MP for Chelmsford.The Liberal Democrat MP Marie Goldman said on Saturday: “My mind has blown. How this could possibly happen?”He came out of the airlock, and kept saying to the officers there, ‘Where am I going? What am I doing? I don’t know where I’m going and what I’m doing.’He was holding a pack of paperwork in his arms, and his bag of bits …He knew he’d been deported. He came over to me and said, ‘I need you to help me.’ Continue reading...