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Child abductor wrongly freed

Prison apologises for not ‘flagging up’ High Court order to staff

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Joshua Rozenberg
May 04, 2026
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Staff at Pentonville prison in London wrongly failed to detain a man who had carried out a “brutal abduction of a young boy from his mother”, the High Court said on Friday.

Mr Justice Hayden added that keeping Ifedayo Adedapo Kolawole Adeyeye in custody had been “the best, perhaps only, hope for the reunification of this boy with his mother”. Claire Mire…

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