A former soldier who escaped from prison and went on the run for three days has been found guilty of spying for Iran.
Daniel Khalife, 23, was serving in the British Army when he “exposed military personnel to serious harm” by collecting sensitive information and passing it to agents of the Middle Eastern country.
Khalife created and passed on fake documents supposedly from MPs, senior military officials and the security services, but also sent genuine army documents. He took a photo of a handwritten list of 15 of them, having been sent an internal spreadsheet of promotions in June 2021.Prosecutors believe he sent the list to Iran before deleting any evidence.
Gul Nawaz Hussain KC, defending, said the double agent plot was “hapless” and “sometimes bordering on the slapstick”, more “Scooby-Doo” than James Bond or Homeland. As the driver of the Mercedes truck, Balazs Werner, was leaving the prison, two guards checked the vehicle with a “torch and mirror”, and told him someone was missing from the prison.
Daniel Khalife made headlines in September 2023 when he escaped from HMP Wandsworth where he was awaiting trial accused of spying for Iran
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