Father on the Run After Prison Blunder

0:00On May 2nd, a father convicted of abducting his own five-year-old son got released from prison by mistake, and he's still on the run. Ivedeo Adiai snatched little lorries from his mom in France back on July 27th, 2024, and took him to Nigeria. He got hit with six months in jail this January for contempt. Then another 12 months on April 20th, but staff at H&P Pentenville let him walk. Free the very next day, April 21st, even though he had a year left and was set for extradition to France. The mix-up wasn't caught until April 23rd, and police only got the heads up on April 24th. Turns out, prison folks missed the flag on his new sentence, despite him just being sentenced and court the day before. Adiai, a dual British Nigerian engineer, had already dodged orders to bring the boyback, and now there's a two-day gap where he could have bolted the country. The judge, Mr. Justice Hayden, ripped into the alarming lack of urgency from prison staff, paying the state straight-up failed to mom Claire.

1:01Andy Josie, who's heartbroken and hasn't seen her son since the abduction. He called Adiai a real danger to the kid's safety and emotions, dishonest from jump, and stressed that keeping him locked up is the best shot at, reuniting the family. The mom's pain hit hard in court, watching via interpreter from France. Police are on the hunt with urgent inquiries to track him down and drag him back to custody. This blunder fits a bigger pattern of official numbers, show 262 inmates mistakenly freed in the year to march 2025, up 128% from the year before. Prison's like HMP Wandsworth have had similar slips with serious offenders. With the judge pushing public awareness and the government's promising fixes to release systems, this case spotlights how these errors risk kids and families caught in the crossfire stay tuned as the search ramps up.