Child abductor wrongly released early from prison could now be abroad, police fears

TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say It is believed that he may have travelled to Spain the following day, all before prison staff contacted the Metropolitan Police in the afternoon of April 24.Mr Justice Hayden said: If the police had been contacted immediately, this could perhaps, almost certainly perhaps, have been prevented. The public is entitled to expect far better than this.Last June, the same judge ruled that Adeyeye, a dual British-Nigerian national, abducted Laurys from his mother, Claire N’Djosse, in France and took him to the African country via the UK.The judge said Laurys was born in France and had lived with Ms N’Djosse since birth, adding that the day of the abduction, July 27 2024, was the first time that Laurys was staying overnight with his father.Ms N’Djosse has not seen her son since and has been trying to secure his return through the English courts, with Mr Justice Hayden ruling in a legal first that the High Court had the power to order that Adeyeye return Laurys to his mother, even though the boy did not live in the UK.After he failed to do so, Adeyeye was arrested upon his return to the UK and was jailed for six months in January for contempt of court.The day before he was due to be released, Adeyeye was jailed for a further 12 months on April 20 for further contempt of court offences, before his mistaken release the following day.The blunder became public knowledge earlier this month after Mr Justice Hayden allowed reporting of the issue at a hearing on May 1, during which he said the state has failed and that there was an alarming lack of urgency from prison staff.LATEST DEVELOPMENTS'Extremely violent' drill rapper who escaped prison twice is caught in FRANCE after fleeing Britain in lorry‘Dangerous’ prisoner escapes from prison just ONE WEEK after last going on run'Useless windbag!' David Lammy lambasted by ex-detective as two prisoners remain at large after escaping prisonOn Monday, the judge said that the abduction was “an act of cruelty that even this court rarely sees and described Adeyeye as arrogant and manipulative, and cold and calculated.Police told the court that Adeyeye may have entered Spain on April 22 and that authorities in the country had been notified, adding: The Metropolitan Police recognises both the seriousness of this matter and how traumatic the present situation must be for both (Ms N’Djosse) and her son.They added: We are using the powers at our disposal to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry to locate and arrest (Adeyeye), and will continue to do so diligently and expeditiously.Police said that the prison service told them that Adeyeye was released due to a communication failure with the court, which Mr Justice Hayden described as an entirely groundless suggestion. Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter