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The offenders who have vanished include a child sex offender.

All four were granted bail by the courts against the wishes of the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA).

But news of the latest blunder is hugely damaging to the Home Office, which has been keen to reassure the public that it has a grip on the fiasco which led to the sacking of former home secretary Charles Clarke in May last year.

The missing paedophile was believed to be a 19-year-old man who indecently assaulted a girl under 16.

The three other criminals who have disappeared were from a slightly lower category of offending, convicted of crimes such as violent crime and other sex offences.

The absconders were among the 1,013 foreign offenders released from jail in England and Wales without being considered for deportation.

An update from BIA chief executive Lin Homer revealed that only 214 of the 1,013 have so far been deported, more than a year after the situation first came to light.

And nearly 150 offenders have not yet been traced.

The four absconders were re-captured after news of the errors emerged, but the courts refused the Home Office's application to return them to detention and granted bail.