New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- UK police has started a manhunt to locate a ex asylum seeker who was in jail for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, after the latter was mistakenly released from the HMP Chelmsford prison on Friday.

Hadush Kebatu, the Ethiopian national in question, was jailed in September for a 12-month term for the sex assault crime.

BBC spoke to sources in the prison who have revealed that Kebatu was scheduled for transportation to an immigration detention centre, and would have been deported to his country of origin later.

While the UK prison service has launched a probe into the matter, an officer of the prison has been suspended.

Essex Police has said that Kebatu had boarded a train bound for London from Chelmsford sta...