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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Callahan UK correspondence with that's hello.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth, Hello Heather, how are you, Mike. Great to be

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Speaker 2: with you again.

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe the absolute cluster that happened with that

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Speaker 1: migrant six offend. How did that even happen?

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Speaker 2: Well, yesterday the Justice Secretary David Lammy was in Parliament

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Speaker 2: being grilled in a House of Commons by MP's into

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Speaker 2: how on earth a forty eight year old asylum seeker

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Speaker 2: who had been convicted of a number of sexual assaults

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Speaker 2: was accidentally released from prison and left to roam the

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Speaker 2: streets for forty eight hours. He went off to London.

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Speaker 2: But you know this, apparently, no surprise, was a human error.

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Speaker 2: According to the Justice Secretary, he has announced an independent

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Speaker 2: investigation into exactly what went wrong. The prison h MP

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Speaker 2: Chelmsford is in Essex, in the southeast of the country

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Speaker 2: and this was a really high profile case of this

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Speaker 2: offender who had come over from Ethiopia on a small

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Speaker 2: boat back in June. In July he committed an offense

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Speaker 2: against a fourteen year old girl and another woman as well.

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Speaker 2: It led to huge protests outside the migrant hotel where

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Speaker 2: he had been staying in Epping in Essex and then

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Speaker 2: he was sentenced to twelve months last month in September

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Speaker 2: and jailed and that was where we thought he would

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Speaker 2: be spending most of his time before being deported. So

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Speaker 2: he had been due to be transferred to an immigration

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Speaker 2: detention center but instead was released into the community. It's

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Speaker 2: you know that there have been extra checks are already

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Speaker 2: being put on. They're effective immediately. That's another thing that

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Speaker 2: Justice Secretary has announced, but really huge questions to be

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Speaker 2: It's a massive embarrassment for the government as to how

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Speaker 2: this person was at large. Fortunately was re released very

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Speaker 2: quickly earlier over the weekend. David Lammy, the Justice actually

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Speaker 2: said that he would be deported today later today, but

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Speaker 2: yesterday or this week, But yesterday he didn't mention that again,

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Speaker 2: so I'm not sure what's going on with that, but

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Speaker 2: I think the quicker that he is deported, the better

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Speaker 2: it's going to look for the government.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely couldn't agree more. Now, what do you think the

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Speaker 1: King needs to do about Andrew given that this has

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Speaker 1: got to Hickling territory.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't possibly give my own opinion on that, but

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Speaker 2: it's again a huge embarrassment for the King, for the

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Speaker 2: whole of the royal family who have Prince Andrew and

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Speaker 2: his connections to Epstein, the fact that he's been living

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Speaker 2: in this thirty room mansion for several years, rent free

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Speaker 2: for twenty years with his ex wife. Yesterday, the King

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Speaker 2: was doing the rounds during a visit to the cathedral,

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Speaker 2: greeting crowds as he often does so so well with

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Speaker 2: members of the public, when a protester who had got

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Speaker 2: into the crowd shouted out, how long have you known

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Speaker 2: about Andrew and Epstein? Have you asked the police to

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Speaker 2: cover it up for Andrew? And then he went on

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Speaker 2: to say should MPs be allowed to debate the royals

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Speaker 2: in the House of Commons, which is something that certainly

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Speaker 2: the liberal Demotocrats are trying to get to get done.

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Speaker 2: But the King, ever professional, didn't respond to the questions,

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Speaker 2: carried on greeting fans as he would and actually a

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Speaker 2: lot of the people people that come out and greet

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Speaker 2: the Queen the King a generally big royalists, so a

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Speaker 2: lot of them were very annoyed that this man was

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Speaker 2: upsetting the whole event, was telling him to shut up

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Speaker 2: and go, oh, go away, go leave him alone, Leave

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Speaker 2: the King alone. So yes, at the moment the situation

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Speaker 2: Prince Andrew, you know, there's newspaper story after newspaper story.

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Speaker 2: The latest thing is his living arrangements, as I said,

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Speaker 2: and it looks like he may move out of this

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Speaker 2: Thursday bedroom mansion, the Royal Lodge on the Crown Escape

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Speaker 2: Estate in Windsor potentially going to Prince Harry and Meghan's

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Speaker 2: old class Frogmore cottage. But then he also apparently and

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Speaker 2: the Palace is not commenting on any of his living arrangements.

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Speaker 2: Sarah Ferguson his ex wife. He wants her to have

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Speaker 2: Adelaide Cottage, which is where the Prince and Princess so

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Speaker 2: Welles will be moving out of next month. So whether

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Speaker 2: he'll get his way, whether he deserves anything, frankly, you know,

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Speaker 2: but of course he denies any wrongdoing in regards to

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Speaker 2: any of the allegations against him. But certainly there is

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Speaker 2: starting to be an appetite for a debate in the

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Speaker 2: comments about his living arrangements which effectively come out of

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Speaker 2: taxpayers money and his connection with Epstein.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as they should be. Hey, thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate Elizabeth. That's Elizabeth Callahan, UK correspondent for more

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