This is the moment an ex-convict was greeted outside jail by a £200,000 Lamborghini after being freed under Labour’s early prison release scheme.
Around 1,700 people were let out by the controversial scheme today, with everyone eligible for release apart from violent criminals jailed for more than four years.
Photographs outside HMP Pentonville in London show a group of men gathered outside a black and red Lamborghini, including one prisoner dressed in a lakers T-shirt with his hair in dreadlocks.
Footage then shows the luxury vehicle driving along the street, with the prisoner understood to have been picked up by either the Lamborghini or a Bentley.
The stunning car is filmed driving slowing through a pedestrian crossing and around a bend on a busy street of cars and pedestrians.
Those set free by the scheme include hardened drug dealers, violent domestic abusers and even people who have played roles in the killing of teenagers, much to the fury of their victims’ loved ones.
More than 5,000 are to be set loose over the next six weeks, including domestic abusers and sex offenders.
Downing Street said the policy had to be brought in to avoid the police and courts becoming unable to lock anyone up because there were no places available.
But chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor warned some of those released would be homeless which could increase their chances of reoffending.