A British soldier accused of spying for Iran before escaping prison beneath a food truck approached MI6 to become a “double agent”, a court has heard.
Daniel Khalife, 23, escaped from HMP Wandsworth on September 6 2023, resulting in a “relatively short but intense” nationwide search by the Met.A former member of the British Army, Khalife was in custody pending a trial after being charged with eliciting or attempting to elicit information likely to be useful to a person preparing an act of terror, placing an explosive and obtaining information useful to an enemy.
The court heard how he had also previously sought out Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard as part of his research.Opening the case, prosecutor Mark Heywood KC, said the allegations against Khalife involved the “surreptitious gathering and communication with foreign agents of sensitive, sometimes secret information”.He said that much of the information was "of a kind relevant to the work of the Armed Forces of this country, and so which might well be useful to her enemies”.
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