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Terror suspect Daniel Khalife has been charged with escaping custody at HMP Wandsworth, the Metropolitan Police has stated.

The 21-year-old escaped the London jail on the morning of September 6, sparking a nationwide manhunt that lasted 75 hours.

The seek for the ex-soldier got here to a detailed when a police officer in plain garments pulled Mr Khalife off his bike on Saturday, September 9, at 10.41am.

Mr Khalife was noticed on a canal towpath in the Northolt space, west London, only some miles away from HMP Wandsworth.

The officer who efficiently ended the manhunt was reportedly heard shouting to Mr Khalife: “Don’t move or we’ll shoot.”

Upon being stopped, the terror suspect was reportedly heard yelling: “It’s not me! I ain’t done anything!” He was then wrestled to the floor, stories the Sun.

A 20-year-old scholar, Ethan Andrews, who witnessed the chaotic scene discovered the fugitive “arrogant”.

After being arrested and held with his arms tied behind his again, Mr Khalife “started laughing” as he seen the scholar.

Mr Andrews advised The Sun on Sunday: “The guy looked up at me, winked and started laughing. I thought, how arrogant is that? I can’t believe he was just sitting there, looked at me and just winked.”

Mr Khalife had escaped from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday final week, having strapped himself underneath a meals supply van.

An investigation has been launched by the Ministry of Justice into how the 21-year-old was in a position to escape the London Category B jail.

Prior to his escape, Mr Khalife was awaiting trial whereas being accused of making an attempt to spy for an enemy state, understood to be Iran, acquiring info more likely to be helpful to an individual committing or making ready an act of terrorism, and plotting a bomb hoax.

Mr Khalife will seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on September 11.

It isn’t recognized whether or not he’ll return to Wandsworth or he will probably be housed in a higher-security location.