Daniel Khalife marked date for prison escape in diary, court told

Former worker Daniel Khalife marked a leafage successful his diary with an asterisk aft helium decided helium was going to interruption retired of prison, a tribunal has heard.

The 23-year-old escaped from HMP Wandsworth successful the anticipation that helium would beryllium kept successful a precocious information portion (HSU) astatine a antithetic situation distant from “sex offenders” and “terrorists” aft his recapture, his proceedings was told.

Jurors astatine Woolwich Crown Court were shown a leafage of Khalife’s situation diary with an asterisk marking September 6 2023 – the time helium was to escape.

The erstwhile worker tied himself to the underside of a nutrient transportation motortruck utilizing a sling made of room trousers, the tribunal heard.

Khalife told jurors helium planned a fake flight effort for August 21 successful the anticipation helium would beryllium moved to the HSU, but decided escaping for existent was his lone enactment aft the incidental was not reported to elder situation staff.

Jurors were shown his diary introduction for that day, which besides had an asterisk arsenic good arsenic the connection “failed”, which helium told the tribunal helium wrote a fewer days later.

The erstwhile worker wanted to beryllium kept successful the HSU astatine HMP Belmarsh – a prison-within-a-prison holding immoderate of the country’s astir unsafe criminals – due to the fact that helium believed helium would beryllium safer there, the tribunal heard.

After being taken to Wandsworth situation successful January 2023, helium was told helium would beryllium kept connected a helping for susceptible prisoners due to the fact that determination were “terrorist offenders” who “want to termination you”, the tribunal heard.

Khalife told jurors that “95%” of those successful the portion were “serious enactment offenders, rapists, paedophiles, that benignant of thing”.

Five days earlier his palmy escape, helium attached a sling to the underside of the lorry made from “kitchen trousers” and carabiners, the assemblage was told.

The sling “wasn’t spotted astatine Wandsworth gross oregon immoderate different prison”, Khalife said.

“When the process assistance raised it covered maine entirely.

“If the makeshift sling wasn’t noticed, they’re hardly going to announcement me,” helium added.

While connected the run, Khalife bought apparel from Marks & Spencer, a java from McDonald’s and walked by the River Thames earlier being caught by constabulary 3 days later.

“I judge that I near the situation and I didn’t person immoderate permission,” helium told jurors.

“I would bash thing to spell backmost to my vocation (in the Army).”

As good arsenic the situation escape, Khalife besides faces charges contrary to the Official Secrets Act and Terrorism Act, and is accused of perpetrating a weaponry hoax.

He denies each the charges, and the proceedings volition proceed connected November 11.