Escaping from Wandsworth Prison used to be hard. When the “Great Train Robber” Ronnie Biggs did it in 1965, he scaled the wall with a rope ladder and dropped into a waiting removal van. When Iranian spy Daniel Khalife broke out two years ago,

The Victorian-era facility is one of the largest in the UK with its interior just as intimidating as its entrance.

Smith, of Woking, Surrey, was photographed at 10.03am today being dropped off in a flat bed truck outside the prison gates. Smith then hugged his partner inside the van, smoked a cigarette and flashed a smile at the cameras waiting outside the prison gates, according to footage obtained by ITV News.

A prisoner has been accidentally released from HMP Wandsworth and officers are urgently trying to locate him, the Met Police have said

William "Billy" Smith, 35, is back in custody after being mistakenly released on Monday, while police are still searching for Brahim Kaddour-Cherif.

William Smith, also known as Billy, was sentenced to four years in jail after being convicted of multiple fraud offences on Monday. But the 35-year-old was freed from HMP Wandsworth in the affluent south London suburb that same day and remains on the run.

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif exposed himself to a woman in a park near his home while he was wanted for failing to appear in court on burglary charges earlier that month

An Algerian sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison has been arrested by police. Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was arrested after being spotted by a member of the public in Islington, London just before 11:30 on Friday.

A SEX predator migrant mistakenly freed from a bungling prison has finally been caught after days on the run. Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was wrongly released from HMP Wandsworth in South West