diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-cancel.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-cancel.ts
index 160824ff..8a2c91f9 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-cancel.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-cancel.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ export async function crawlCancelController(req: Request, res: Response) {
     }
 
     try {
+      await getWebScraperQueue().client.del(job.lockKey());
+      await job.takeLock();
       await job.moveToFailed(Error("Job cancelled by user"), true);
     } catch (error) {
       console.error(error);