Terror suspect Daniel Khalife yelled ‘it isn’t me’ after being yanked off bike

Daniel Khalife, who was arrested at present after a four-day manhunt, desperately tried to protest his innocence when he was first confronted by a heroic police officer. Mr Khalife was dramatically pulled from a bicycle as he cycled alongside a canal towpath in west London. Witnesses informed the MailOnline that the fugitive allegedly informed the officer: “It’s not me! I haven’t done anything.”

This comes as extra particulars emerge surrounding the dramatic arrest of the fear suspect.

Witnesses to the arrest, which came about within the Northolt space, mentioned {that a} lone plain-clothes police officer waited till the 21-year-old fugitive was eye-level to him earlier than smashing him off his bike.

The counter-terrorism officer cuffed Mr Khalife and held him down on the ground at gunpoint.

The witness reported that 4 extra undercover law enforcement officials arrived inside minutes of the arrest because the Metropolitan Police rapidly swarmed the world.

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The witness mentioned: “It was obviously a well-planned operation and they must have been following him because the officer was lying in wait for him.

“It’s a reduction that they lastly have him.”

Meanwhile, it was reported that Mr Khalife was found with a sleeping bag, bicycle, Waitrose cool bag and wearing a change of clothes when police swooped on him.

Peter Bleksley, a former Scotland Yard detective, told Express.co.uk Khalife’s change of clothes – from a chef’s uniform when he escaped prison – will be one focus for detectives now.

He said: “It might be very attention-grabbing to see the place he obtained his change of garments from. Did he scavenge them? Did he steal them? Or did somebody give them to him?”