Daniel Abed Khalife, a former soldier, was found guilty of collecting sensitive information for people linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and gathering the names of special forces personnel. Khalife also escaped from Wandsworth prison in September 2023.
The Wandsworth prison, where Daniel Abed Khalife, a former soldier who is suspected of terrorism offences, escaped, in London, on Sept. 7, 2023.A British soldier was found guilty on Thursday of collecting sensitive information for people linked to Iran ’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and gathering the names of special forces personnel.
He then escaped from London’s Wandsworth prison in September 2023 while awaiting trial for the other charges, tying himself to the bottom of a delivery van and sparking a brief nationwide manhunt. Khalife said he was a patriot and that he and his family hated the Iranian government. “Me and my family are against the regime in Iran,” he told the jury.
Heywood told the jury that Khalife, who joined the army shortly before his 17th birthday, had almost immediately begun “to entertain thoughts about espionage”.
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