(ProsperNews.net) – Police in the UK have detained a terror suspect who escaped prison by clinging to the bottom of a delivery truck. Cops caught up with Daniel Abed Khalife in the upmarket Chiswick area of London on September 9 after a frantic four-day manhunt. Khalife was an inmate at London’s Wandsworth prison, where he awaited trial for planting fake bombs at a military base and gathering sensitive information “that could be useful to an enemy,” violating the country’s Official Secrets Act.
The 21-year-old former British Army soldier allegedly collected sensitive military data to pass on to officials in Iran. His escape was described as “pre-planned” by police, who suspect he may have had assistance inside the prison. “To work out a prison escape, and how you are going to do the logistics of it, get the right equipment and how you are going to do it, it’s unlikely that you would do that in the spur of the moment,” said London police commissioner Mark Rowley.
Khalife worked in the prison kitchens, and when a delivery truck arrived to bring supplies, he attached himself to the underside of the vehicle and clung on as it drove through the jail gates. A plainclothes police officer spotted him cycling through the Chiswick area and pulled him from the bicycle to the ground. The chase involving 150 counter-terrorism officers had ended.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was pleased that the incident was over and that his government would investigate what went wrong and how prison security could so easily be breached.
Khalife joined the British Army in 2019 but disappeared from his post on January 2 this year, having allegedly planted fake bombs on his base in the city of Stafford in the English Midlands. Police located and arrested him on January 26, and he was held in Wandsworth jail until his escape. He denies all charges and is due in court in November.
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