ESCAPE CHARGE
Terror suspect Daniel Khalife charged with prison escape after going on run for 4-days from HMP Wandsworth
THE alleged terrorist Daniel Khalife has been charged with making a prison escape after going on the run for four days.
Khalife, 21, will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on September 11 having escaped from Wandsworth Prison, South London.
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He was arrested on a towpath near Rowdell Road, Northolt on September 9, following a policing operation led by undercover officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.
Khalife is believed to have left the west London jail by clinging to the bottom of a delivery van.
In January 2023, Khalife, of Beaconside, Stafford, was charged over two incidents at an RAF base.
Khalife was being held in the prison awaiting trial for terror offences and alleged breaches of the Official Secrets Act.
He was accused of allegedly planting fake bombs at the military base of MOD Stafford.
The terror suspect was seen glaring at cops after he was captured having gone on the run.
Our exclusive picture shows the ex-soldier handcuffed after a huge manhunt.
Plain-clothes police yelled “Don’t move or we’ll shoot” as they finally caught the jailbreak terror suspect.
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Officers hid on a grassy verge behind a wall near a canal towpath before pouncing at 10.41am.
They dragged him off a bicycle, believed to be stolen, wrestled him to the floor then pinned him against the underside of a bridge.
It brought to an end one of the biggest police searches in recent years — involving 150 anti-terror cops and an all-ports alert.
Wearing a t-shirt, shorts and trainers, he also had a sleeping bag, change of clothes, bottle of water and a Waitrose cool bag which appeared to contain food.
It was unclear how he managed to get the items, and if he had help.
Student Ethan Andrews, 20, witnessed the arrest and asked officers if it was the same man he had seen in news reports.
He said: “The guy looked up at me, winked and started laughing. I thought, how arrogant is that?
“I can’t believe he was just sitting there, looked at me and just winked.”
Met counter-terrorism boss Commander Dominic Murphy said more than 150 of his officers had been involved in catching Khalife.
He said the fugitive was “fully co-operative and handcuffed and arrested”.
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More than 100 calls had been made to police with tips and possible sightings, after Scotland Yard offered a £20,000 reward for information.
An investigation is under way as to how Khalife broke out of the Category B prison given he was charged under the Official Secrets Act with trying to pass information to a hostile state, and with leaving a hoax bomb at his military base.
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