British Army soldier hung onto the bottom of a truck as it drove out of one of the UK's largest prisons, where he was held pending trial.
Metropolitan Police / Getty Images / CollageA suspected terrorist hung onto the bottom of a delivery truck as it drove out the gates of one of the UK’s largest prisons, sparking an appeal for information and a manhunt by London’s Metropolitan Police.
Daniel Abed Khalife, a British Army soldier who is accused of a terror plot — allegedly harvesting information from a Ministry of Defence database and staging a bomb hoax — is believed to have escaped from His Majesty’s Prison Wandsworth on Wednesday. The 21-year-old is said to have escaped from the London B-category prison by using his role in the facility’s kitchens to sneak under a visiting truck, holding onto the underside as it drove out of the compound.
THe Metropolitan Police said they were “urgently appealing” for information about Khalife, saying he “should not be approached” by members of the public, and that he had links to the London Kingston area. The force’s head of counterterrorism talked down the risk posed by Khalife being at large, though, saying Wednesday: “I also want to reassure the public that we have no information which indicates, nor any reason to believe that Khalife poses a threat to the wider public”.
He was also accused of leaving “three canisters with wires” at his barracks at MOD Stafford which was allegedly a bomb hoax. Khalife by a magistrate in February that: “These matters are very serious… If you are convicted, you are going to face a prison sentence in years not months.”We are urgently appealing to trace Daniel Khalife, who escaped from Wandsworth Prison this morning.If you have info on his whereabouts, call 999 quoting CAD 1631/06SEP23
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