Daniel Khalife: Terror suspect charged with escaping custody at HMP Wandsworth

Daniel Khalife has been charged with escaping custody at HMP Wandsworth, the Metropolitan Police stated.

The terror suspect went missing from prison on Wednesday, and was arrested in a London suburb on Saturday – ending 75 hours on the run.

Khalife reportedly laughed as he was apprehended in Northolt on Saturday morning – not lengthy after a plain-clothes police officer pulled him off a motorbike on a canal towpath.

The former soldier was working within the jail kitchen and was carrying a cook dinner’s uniform when he disappeared. He is believed to have held on to straps on the underside of the truck to make his escape.

Khalife, 21, will seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

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About 40 inmates of HMP Wandsworth have been moved out of the prison after Khalife’s escape, the Justice Secretary advised Sky News’ Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips.

Alex Chalk stated the preliminary findings of his investigation had discovered the related procedures and safety workers had been in place – however it was nonetheless to be established whether or not they had been adopted.

Dozens of people on remand had been moved to totally different websites “out of an abundance of caution”, he stated.

Khalife is a former member of the Royal Signals and was primarily based at Beacon Barracks in Stafford.

He was on remand at HMP Wandsworth awaiting trial. He was accused of leaving pretend bombs at a navy base, a cost beneath the Terrorism Act, and one other beneath the Official Secrets Act, which alleges he dedicated “an act prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state”.

He was discharged from the military in May and appeared on the Old Bailey by way of video hyperlink in July, denying the fees in opposition to him.