A former British soldier who escaped from Wandsworth prison while awaiting trial for spying for Iran has been jailed for 14 years and three months. Daniel Khalife, 23, sparked a nationwide manhunt ...

A former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after an audacious three-day escape from a London prison was sentenced Monday to more than 14 years behind bars for betraying his country.

The 23-year-old was serving in the British Army when he started spying for Iran and later escaped from Wandsworth prison on a food delivery truck, ITV London's Political Correspondent Simon Harris ...

Former British Army soldier Daniel Khalife has today been jailed for more than 14 years for spying on behalf of Iran and escaping from Wandsworth prison while in custody. The 23-year-old gathered ...

Khalife, who was discharged from the armed forces after he was charged, also admitted escaping from London’s Wandsworth prison in September 2023 while awaiting trial for the other charges.

And after a trial at the end of last year, he was found guilty of spying for Iran, having already admitted to his prison escape. Just moments ago, he was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison.

In September 2023, Khalife escaped from category B prison HMP Wandsworth, in south-west London, by clinging to the underside of a food delivery truck. He was caught on a canal towpath by a ...

Adeel Khan denied assisting an escaped prisoner but pleaded guilty to possession of a phone in prison (Jonathan Brady/PA) He had already admitted escaping from Wandsworth prison, but was cleared ...

Khalife, now 23, was charged in January 2023 and became the subject of a nationwide manhunt eight months later when he fled Wandsworth prison before his trial. He was arrested in London after a 75 ...

Khalife broke out of HMP Wandsworth, a category B prison, in September 2023 by clinging on to the underside of a food delivery truck but was discovered by a plainclothes detective days later by a ...