Daniel Khalife sentencing LIVE: Ex-soldier going through jail over Iran spying | UK | News | EUROtoday

Daniel Khalife shall be sentenced at present for spying for Iran and breaking out of Wandsworth Prison in 2023.

The ex-soldier, who will seem in Woolwich Crown Court, “exposed military personnel to serious harm” by accumulating delicate info and giving it to Iranian brokers whereas serving within the military.

The 23-year-old was paid in money and advised the brokers he would proceed to serve for no less than 25 years, which prosecutors known as “a cynical game” involving “a very large body of restricted and classified material”.

Khalife broke out of HMP Wandsworth, a class B jail, in September 2023 by clinging on to the underside of a meals supply truck, however was found by a plainclothes detective days later by a canal.

He was discovered responsible of breaking the Official Secrets Act and the Terrorism Act in November, however cleared of finishing up a bomb hoax.

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