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The former Daniel Khalife soldier was named “a dangerous fool” by the judge in prison for more than 14 years in order to escape prison and spied Iran.
In a prison that pulled out intense attention to the alight And he caused the main manhunt, Khalife, escaped the Category B prison HMP Wandsworth in the southwest London, clinging to the underside of food delivery trucks in September 2023. years. Years. He was caught on the traction channel later.
Police described as “Ultimate Walter Mitty character” It was a significant influence on the real world, “he served British army When he “exposed military personnel for serious damage” by collecting sensitive information and transfer it to the agents of the Middle Eastern country.
He was paid in cash for secret information and told the operators that he would stay in the army for 25-plus for them for them.
Prosecutors said that Khalife was playing a “cynical game”, claiming that he wanted a career as a double means of assistance to British intelligence services, when he actually collected “a very large body and classified material. However, his defense lawyer Gul Nawaz Hussain KC called the double plot “Hapless” and “sometimes borderbags,” more Scooby-doo than James Bond or Homeland.
In November, jurors on Woowich Crown Court found that Khalife broke Official Secret Laws on Secrecy and Terrorist Act. It was cleared that he was carried by a bomb of the fraud and had already admitted during the trial to run away Wandsworth Prison. Was sentenced to 14 years and three months in prison in the same court On Monday.
Khalife’s Baruro told the hearing of the sentence that some documents advocated that Iranes passed were “left fake” and that his crimes showed “a sense of irregular self-confidence and gross overestimation.”
Mr. Hussain said that 23-year spy activities would not lower in “Annals of History”, adding, “There is no chance that Mr. Khalife will wrap himself as a powder of spies.”
He also told Mrs. Cheema-Grubb that Khalife was made “uncomfortable”, notorium generated by his case and that he “hopes that interest in his case will diminish”.
The hearing heard Khalife said, “I won’t let what happened to me.”
The accused joined the Army in 2018. year, two weeks before his 17th birthday and served with the royal corpus signal.
2021. Khalife secretly raised the names of the servants of soldiers, including those in special forces. He photographed the operating list of 15 of them, after the internal spreadsheet promoted in June 2021. years. The prosecutors believed he had listed the Iran list before deleting any evidence.
After the arrest, he told the police that he wanted to offer himself in the UK security agencies, which email me by email by email.
Khalife told jurors that he was wrong to make the Gardes wrong after being told that his Iranian heritage could stop him in military intelligence and came with a complex double parcel after watching the TV spy Homeland of Thrillers.
In November, 2021. made an anonymous call to public reporting MI5, acknowledging that he was in contact with Iran for more than two years. He offered to help British security services and said he wanted to return to his normal life.
The prosecutors said that Khalife prepared a bombing in his barracks Staffordshire in January 2023. years, but the trial heard that the soldier who arrived in the room pulled out the wires to prove it was not real. A bomb disposal unit was called after the police attended and looked at the device a few days later.
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