CCTV shows lorry Daniel Khalife climed onto amnd escaped on parked outside Wandsworth prison.
LISTEN:A British soldier has told a court he escaped from prison and went on the run to show 'what a foolish idea it was having someone of my skillset' behind bars.
Giving evidence at Woolwich Crown Court, Khalife insisted he had no intention of remaining at large - and only escaped to ensure he would be put in a high-security segregated unit when he was transferred to a more dangerous category A prison. Jurors were shown CCTV of the dramatic moment British soldier Daniel Khalife escaped from prison while clinging to the bottom of the lorry
Khalife told jurors that '95 per cent' of those in the unit were 'serious sex offenders, rapists, paedophiles, that sort of thing'.The former soldier told Woolwich Crown Court he was helped by a man in his unit to get a job in the prison stores. Khalife then hatched a plan to get himself classified as a very high-risk prisoner by mounting an escape attempt.Read More Former British soldier Daniel Khalife tells court he is a 'patriot' who is 'against Iran' at trial where he is accused of passing secret information to the regime A few weeks before his escape, he loitered in a 'suspicious' way near the food lorry but, although spotted and reprimanded, it was not sufficient for him to be moved to the secure unit.
'I left and I knew at that moment I would be classified as high risk and I would be put in a high-security unit,' he said. He added: 'I made no attempts to leave the United Kingdom or go towards any direction that would be near a coast.Khalife said he did not intend to disappear for good and deliberately remained in the London area while on the run. PIctured: Khalife on his arrest
Khalife said: 'I was not looking for any help to aid the escape or anything - I made contact out of curiosity.'
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