Daniel Khalife says prison escape was to get away from terrorists and paedophiles

Daniel Khalife has told a tribunal his notorious situation interruption was a ploy to get distant from ‘sex offenders’ and ‘terrorists’ by forcing authorities determination him to a peculiar unit.

The 23-year-old erstwhile worker is connected proceedings accused of escaping from HMP Wandsworth by strapping himself to the underside of a nutrient transportation motortruck successful September past year.

He allegedly led constabulary connected a three-day manhunt crossed the capital, which saw other information checks enactment successful spot connected the streets and successful airports, earlier being arrested connected a canal footpath.

Khalife had been placed successful Wandsworth connected remand aft being arrested for allegedly spending 2 years passing secrets to Iranian agents portion serving with the Royal Signals Regiment.

Giving grounds connected Friday, Khalife said helium wanted to beryllium enactment into HMP Belmarsh’s High Security Unit erstwhile moved to the situation for his trial.

He told jurors helium had been placed a helping for susceptible prisoners astatine Wandsworth and that ‘95%’ of its inmates were ‘serious enactment offenders, rapists, paedophiles, that benignant of thing’.

‘It was not a bully spot to be… radical connected that helping said unusual things to me,’ helium said.

He said helium had been kept connected the helping due to the fact that determination were ‘terrorist offenders’ successful different parts of the situation who ‘want to termination you’.

Khalife claimed helium had ‘no intention’ of fleeing the UK erstwhile extracurricular situation oregon ‘run distant from these charges’ and near successful the content it wold get him reclassified arsenic a ‘double class A’ prisoner.

The 23-year-old, from Kingston, south-west London, besides said his flight showed ‘what a foolish thought it was to person idiosyncratic of my skillset successful prison’.

‘What usage was it to anyone? I judge that I near the situation and I didn’t person immoderate permission.

‘I judge that I shouldn’t person done what I did.’

The tribunal antecedently heard Khalife was primitively arrested aft emailing MI6 and calling MI5 offering to beryllium a treble against against Iran.

On Friday helium maintained that it had been his extremity to go a treble cause and said helium was inspired to bash truthful by the Netflix spy thriller Homeland.

‘I had seen 1 of the characters had falsely defected to a peculiar state and utilised this position,’ helium said.

Prosecutors accidental Khalife made a hoax weaponry successful his compartment to hold the hunt for him, leaving adjacent it a enactment seemingly discussing his plans.

‘You tin accidental with certainty that you volition spell to situation for a precise agelong time. Your options are termination oregon absconding,’ the enactment said.

‘Once successful Iran you tin negociate beingness again and question to absorbing places freely.’

Khalife told jurors the enactment was a ploy to ramp up the hunt for him, further convincing Iran of his loyalty and allowing him to enactment arsenic a treble agent.

‘I wanted to proceed to assistance our country,’ helium insisted.

The tribunal was antecedently shown CCTV footage of Khalife a Mountain Warehouse, buying a phone and stopping successful an M&S and McDonalds on the dates he’s alleged to person been connected the run.

The tribunal heard helium besides bought a paper with a communicative astir his alleged escape, earlier nipping into a McDonald’s for a £1.09 espresso.

After his arrest, Khalife besides told officers helium ‘never thought’ it was a transgression to flight from prison, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

Asked wherefore helium had allegedly escaped, Khalife replied: ‘Can’t archer you. There’s a crushed wherefore I was truthful calm erstwhile the serviceman arrested me.

‘I could person jumped successful the water, I could person f***** him up. Everything’s gone to plan.

‘If I was really, truly keen to abscond I would person gone to Clapham (station)… the furthest bid possible, spell to immoderate state and disappear.’

He is charged with gathering accusation utile to an enemy, collecting a database of Special Forces soldiers that would beryllium utile for terrorism, perpetrating a weaponry hoax and escaping from prison.

He denies each the charges. The proceedings continues.

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