An asylum seeker accused of sexually assaulting two teenage girls escaped from custody during a medical appointment, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Pirouz Mofrad, 22, absconded from a health facility in Bexhill yesterday morning while on a Sexual Risk Order and was missing overnight before being found today.
Sussex Police had launched an appeal for the public to report sightings of him and, to assist in this, issued two pictures of Mofrad – in one of which he appeared to be running away.
The Sussex Police appeal statement warned the public to be vigilant.
The circumstances around his escape remain unclear – but his being at large makes this the latest in a series of such cases that have embarrassed the authorities in recent days.
Yesterday it emerged that an Algerian asylum seeker who had convictions for offences including indecent exposure had been released by mistake from Wandsworth prison.
Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was released in a mix up last week but the mistake was only reported to the Met Police on Tuesday, raising serious questions over why it took nearly a week for the force to be informed.
That followed soon after last month’s scandal when Ethiopian migrant Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly freed from HMP Chelmsford.
Pirouz Mofrad, 22, absconded from a health facility in Bexhill yesterday morning while on a Sexual Risk Order
The asylum seeker accused of sexually assaulting two teenage girls escaped from custody during a medical appointment, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Kebatu, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, Essex, was freed in error on October 24 before he was arrested in Finsbury Park, north London, three days later – and only finally deported after being paid £500 to go quietly.
Mofrad had been living at a hotel in Horley in Surrey which was used to house asylum seekers.
Mofrad had been remanded in custody facing charges of attempted sexual assault, use of threatening and abusive language with intent to cause fear and use of threatening and abusive language with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress. He is also facing a criminal damage charge and a charge of a failure to comply with a notification requirement.
