New photos show Daniel Khalife in army uniform before escaping prison

New photos show escaped prisoner Daniel Abed Khalife in his army uniform before he was sent to jail.

The 22-year-old suspect escaped from Wandsworth Prison after strapping himself to the bottom of a food delivery truck.

An international manhunt is underway for terror suspect from London, with police seen stopping vehicles along the M20 earlier today to conduct extra searches.

He was awaiting trial for charges relating to terrorism and Official Secrets Act offences, and questions are being asked over whether he was being held at the appropriate facility.

Mr Khalife is described as 6ft 2ins tall and was last seen wearing a prison-issue chef’s uniform of a white T-shirt, red and white chequered trousers and brown steel toe cap boots.

Khalife’s escape has been slammed as ’embarrassing’ for prison bosses, while residents this morning told Metro how they are fearful he may still be nearby.

The Metropolitan Police have said he poses a ‘low risk’ to the public but people have been urged not to approach him and to call 999 instead.

He was accused of preparing an act of terrorism and collecting information useful to an enemy, and was allegedly working for a hostile state. He denied the three charges against him and was set to go to trial in November.

Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, confirmed all police forces and UK border points had been put on notice.

He said although counter-terror officers have deployed across London, where the search has been focused, Mr Khalife ‘could be anywhere in the country at the moment and we are mindful of the risk of him potentially leaving the country’.

The Prison Service is working with the Metropolitan Police to ‘urgently investigate’ how he escaped, and an investigation into why a former soldier accused of terrorism was not held in a prison with the highest security level is ‘under way’.

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