Evening briefing Wednesday 5th November

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0:45It's understood he came into the country in 2019 on a visit visa but overstayed and is facing deportation proceedings. Sharif is a registered sex offender and was convicted in November last year of indecent exposure. It comes after the Deputy Prime Minister David Lamy was repeatedly pressed in the comments on whether any foreign offenders had been freed in error since Hadoush Kabartou last month. Meanwhile, it's been revealed HMP Wandsworth released a second prisoner in error on Monday. William Smith, who goes by Billy, was sentenced to 45 months for multiple fraud offences on the same day he was accidentally freed due to a court clerical error.

1:22Speaking to Times Radio, the Liberal Democrat MP for Woking, Will Foster, said the justice system is completely broken. What happened is completely unacceptable. Earlier today, I was contacted by the Surrey police, where myself and them released this information that this prisoner had wrongly been released. It's completely unacceptable within the space of a week. We've had two prisoners, one of them from Woking, wrongly released by Wandsworth. It showed that our justice system is completely broken. New York City's next mayor has hailed the start of a new era following his election victory. Zoran Mamdani is the youngest and most progressive candidate to hold the office in decades.

2:01He told supporters the hard work of improving lives starts now. New Yorkers deserve a government that they can trust. And on January 1st, when our city celebrates the inauguration of a new administration, let us also celebrate a new era for our city. One that we all feel invested in and whose success we all work to achieve. Antoine Seawright is a Democratic strategist and former advisor to Hillary Clinton. He told Times Radio the election result came down to affordability. Magonomics has failed the American people and the American economy. America's too expensive. Rent is up. Gas is up. Groceries are up.

2:41Electricity is up. And so there's a real urge and a need for everyday Americans to lower costs. And that was the common thread. Around 100 people have been rescued from homes and cars in southwest Wales, where floodings triggered a major incident. Firefighters received more than 450 calls within 12 hours, mainly in Carmarthenshire. Schools were closed today and arrest centres been set up for local residents. The brother of the Southport killers told an inquiry the attacker had a profound fear of the outside world. Their father, Alfonso Rudicabana, says he didn't confront his son when he bought a machete because he feared he would fly into a rage.

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