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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Dan Sabbagh

How did Daniel Khalife escape so easily from Wandsworth prison?

A van approaches the gates of HM Prison Wandsworth
Normal procedure would be for vans coming in and out of a jail to be checked on the underside using a mirror. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty

Daniel Khalife, a former British Army soldier, was charged this January with three offences related to terrorism and espionage and was held awaiting trial at Wandsworth prison, a category B prison in south London.

He is accused of placing a fake bomb in his barracks in Stafford at the beginning of January, obtaining data from a Ministry of Defence personnel system in August 2021 that could have been useful to a terrorist, and, more generally, collecting or communicating data that could be “useful to an enemy”, understood to be Iran.

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