Tracking Kebatu’s movements since he arrived in the UKpublished at 16:19 BST 25 October
29 June: Kebatu arrives in the UK on a small boat having travelled through Sudan, Libya, Italy and France
7 July: Kebatu makes sexually-explicit remarks to a 14-year-old who was eating a pizza with her friend in Epping town centre
8 July: He sexually assaults a woman, trying to kiss her. He does the same to the girl he sexually assaulted the day before, whom he encounters by chance. The woman, when seeing Kebatu with the girl, calls 999. He is arrested overnight
10 July: Kebatu denies charges of sexual assault, appearing at Chelmsford Magistrates Court for the first time
26 August: Kebatu’s trial begins
27 August: The asylum seeker denies the offences, telling the trial: “I’m not a wild animal”
4 September: Kebatu is found guilty of two counts of sexual assault, one count of attempted sexual assault, one count of inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity, and one count of harassment without violence
23 September: Kebatu is sentenced to 12 months in prison and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years. He’s also told he’s facing deportation
24 October: Kebatu is accidentally released from HMP Chelmsford instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre to be deported
25 October: Essex Police says officers are working with the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police as Kebatu is believed to be in the London area
