Justice Secretaries David Lammy [England & Wales] and Angela Constance [Scotland]
From Sky News in the last hour:
179 prisoners freed ‘in error’ in England and Wales in single year – Pressure mounted on Justice Secretary David Lammy last year following a series of high-profile manhunts.
You know where I’m going.
The most recent official parliamentary data (as of 5 December 2025) shows 5 liberations in error in financial year 2025-26 up to that point. This covers roughly the first 8 months of the financial year (April to early December 2025).
No specific updated total for the full period to March 2026 is available in public sources as of April 2026.
https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/questions-and-answers/question?ref=S6W-42371
In an extensive AI search of all MSM operating in Scotland, there were no media reports of any such further cases in Scotland, in the last four months from early December 2025 to end March 2026, so the figure of 5 stands.
England & Wales have 11 times the population of Scotland, so the figure of 55 might have been expect but was in fact 179, more than three times as many.
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