Former soldier Daniel Khalife has pleaded guilty partway through his trial to escaping from prison.
The 23-year-old escaped from HMP Wandsworth in south-west London in September 2023 by clinging to the underside of a food delivery truck using a sling made from kitchen trousers.He continues to deny all the other charges against him.Khalife escaped in the hope he would be kept in a high-security unit at a different prison, away from "sex offenders" and "terrorists" after his recapture, he previously told his trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
Khalife wanted to be kept in the HSU at HMP Belmarsh - a prison within a prison holding some of the country's most dangerous criminals - because he believed he would be safer there, the court heard.Five days before his successful escape, he attached a sling to the underside of the lorry made from kitchen trousers and carabiners.The sling "wasn't spotted at Wandsworth gate or any other prison", Khalife said.
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