The BBC's political editor reflects on suspected terrorist Daniel Abed Khalife's 'gobsmacking' escape.
And escapes by terror suspects from prison very rare indeed.
Senior officials from the Prison and Probation Service were also on the call and the minister, as you might imagine, "sought assurances the jail was now secure," as one source put it to me. By the evening, the justice secretary had ordered an investigation into how Daniel Abed Khalife managed to escape.
Labour's only just appointed shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood claimed that the criminal justice system was in "a state of disrepair".
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