One of two men freed in error from Wandsworth prison hands himself in

Key dates and times as search continues for prisoner released by mistakepublished at 12:11 GMT

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11:26 on 6 November: Surrey Police says William Smith has handed himself in to HMP Wandsworth.

21:05 on 5 November: The Ministry of Justice releases a statement, saying David Lammy “had not been accurately informed of key details” when he was in PMQs.

16:41 on 5 November: The Metropolitan Police confirm a search is under way for Algerian national Brahim Kaddour-Cherif.

16:06 on 5 November: Surrey Police launch a separate manhunt after it was made aware of a second prisoner, William Smith, being released by mistake on 3 November.

13:41 on 5 November: Lammy released a statement where he expressed he was “outraged and appalled by the foreign criminal wanted by the police” and promised that an “urgent manhunt” was under way.

12:43 on 5 November: Cartlidge told Parliament that a second imprisoned migrant had been mistakenly freed – Lammy declined to respond.

12:00 on 5 November: Lammy, covering for Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions, repeatedly refused to answer when asked by shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge whether any more asylum seekers had been wrongly released since the high-profile case of an Ethiopian sex offender last month.

Around 11:45 on 5 November: The Tories reportedly find out that a wrongly released prisoner is at large.

Overnight into 5 November: Justice Secretary David Lammy is informed about the accidental release.

13:00 on 4 November: The Prison Service informs the Metropolitan Police that a prisoner had been released by mistake.

29 October: A 24-year-old Algerian man is released in error from HMP Wandsworth.