Daniel Khalife: Live updates as ex-British Army soldier faces sentencing for HMP Wandsworth escape and spying for Iran

In September 2003, Daniel Khalife trained in a rural manhunt in the United Kingdom when he escaped on the Woodsworth prison under a van.

Khalife was arrested for the first time on January 6, 2022 with a barracks in Stafford where police officers carried out a search order. He told officers that he had received £ 1500 from Iranian handlers in a dog waste bag as part of his behavior.

An investigation of his devices found a number of classified documents and chats with people he thought she was Iranian. He also traveled to Turkey in an attempt to meet them.

Khalife was saved and returned to his barracks before hiding in hiding on January 2, 2023. Khalife was found and was arrested about three weeks later before he was taken in custody.

On September 6, 2023, he managed to escape from the Woodsworth prison while he was in the kitchen obligation by using an improvised cloth under a truck for food delivery. He was imprisoned three days later on the footpath of the Grand Union Canal in Northolt, West -London, after a national manhunt.

Here is the image that appeared in the Daily Mail – newspaper – the day after Khalife was arrested on 10 September.

During his trial, Daniel Khalife said frankly to jury members: “I thought I could be James Bond.”

The problem was that when the young soldier contacted Mi6 who offered his services, no one ever called back.

And so the 23-year-old started an extraordinary espionage emission of his own making.

For more than two years, he hit Iran -secrets, including the names of SAS soldiers, picked photos of military coding systems and other classified material in exchange for payments of £ 1500 left by his mysterious handlers in dog poop bags in various London parks.

In a schedule that even his lawyer called 'Harebrained', the self-described narcissist blown up his own interest by manufacturing documents from MI6 chef Sir Richard Moore, sensitive nuclear plans and he even fake a briefing about negotiations on the release of Nazanin Zaghari -Ratcliffe who could have jeopardized her life.

The police described Khalife as the 'ultimate Walter Mitty character that had a significant impact on the real world'.

He joined the army in 2018, two weeks before his 17th birthday, and served at the Royal Corps of Signals.

In 2021, Khalife secretly collected the names of serving soldiers, including those in the special forces.

He took a picture of a handwritten list of 15 of them, after he was sent an internal spreadsheet of promotions in June 2021. Officers of Justice believed that he sent the list to Iran before he deleted any evidence.

After his arrest, he told the police that he had wanted to present himself to British security agencies all the time, after he had already emailed MI6 in 2019.

Khalife told Jury members that he wanted to prove that bosses were wrong after he was told that his Iranian heritage could stop working in military intelligence, and came with his extensive plot with double agent after watching the TV spionage thriller home country.

In November 2021 he made an anonymous call to the MI5 Public Reporting line, confessing that he had been in contact with Iran for more than two years.

He offered to help the British security services and said he wanted to return to his normal life.

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of MailOnline as a former soldier Daniel Khalife is confronted with conviction for espionage for Iran and escaped from the Woodworth prison.

Khalife, 23, served in the British army when he brought “soldiers to serious damage” by collecting sensitive information and passing it on to middle -won agents.

He was paid in cash for the secret information and told Handlers that he would remain in the army for them for 25 years.

In September 2023, Khalife escaped from category B Prison HMP Wandworth, in southwestern London, by holding on to the bottom of a truck for food delivery.

He was caught on a channel -lighting path by a detective days later.

Stay with us for live updates to his conviction hearing with reporting from the Daily Mail's Crime and Security Editor Rebecca Camber at Woolwich Crown Court and Jamie Bullen in London.