Daniel Khalife charged with escaping Wandsworth prison

The former soldier was arrested at 10.41am on Saturday on a canal towpath in west London after being pulled off a push bike by a plain-clothed counter terrorism officer.

His capture followed a mass land and air search over four days.

The 21-year-old will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

In a statement the Met Police said: “Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday September 11 charged as follows: On the 6th day of September 2023, then being a prisoner in His Majesty’s Prison at Wandsworth, being remanded in custody pending trial as ordered at the Central Criminal Court on the 21st day of July 2023, escaped, contrary to common law.”