Daniel Abed Khalife charged with escaping from Wandsworth Jail

Daniel Khalife has been charged with escaping from custody at HMP Wandsworth, the Metropolitan Police have mentioned.

Khalife, 21, was dramatically arrested on Saturday within the northwest London suburb of Northolt.

His seize adopted a mass land and air search over 4 days after he went lacking from the jail on Wednesday.

He’ll seem in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket on Monday 11 September charged as follows:

“On the sixth day of September 2023, then being a prisoner in His Majesty’s jail at Wandsworth, being remanded in custody pending trial as ordered on the Central Legal Court docket on the twenty first day of July 2023, escaped, opposite to widespread legislation.”

Khalife was arrested on a towpath close to Rowdell Street, Northolt on Saturday 9 September following a policing operation led by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.

After a mass land and air search aided by the safety companies, Khalife was detained on suspicion of being unlawfully at giant and being an escaped prisoner at 10.41am on Saturday after being pulled off a push bike by a plain-clothed counter terrorism officer.

He was arrested on a canal towpath in west London, round eight miles from the place he was final seen by a member of the general public.

Khalife was “totally cooperative” as he was handcuffed, with some stories claiming he was “laughing” as he was arrested.

Police haven’t had a declare for the £20,000 reward but.

Justice Secretary, Alex Chalk mentioned on Sunday that the preliminary findings of his investigation into London’s Victorian jail have discovered that the related procedures and safety employees had been in place.

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However he mentioned dozens of people on remand have been moved to totally different websites “out of an abundance of warning” amid questions over why a former soldier accused of a terror offence was not within the highest safety jail.

Mr Chalk instructed Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips: “Out of an abundance of warning, some prisoners there – a few of these on remand – have been moved (this week).

“Extra sources have, in fact, gone into Wandsworth, so there’s further governor help, a former governor with specific experience in safety.

“But additionally, out of an abundance of warning, round 40 prisoners have been moved simply whereas we unravel what occurred in Wandsworth. That may be a wise, precautionary measure.”

Mr Chalk, discussing the preliminary findings of a evaluation he issued, mentioned the investigation has seemed into whether or not protocols had been in place regarding the unloading of meals from a van and looking the supply car.

“These protocols had been in place, level one,” he mentioned. “And level two, the related safety employees had been additionally in place.

“Plainly what we’ve but to determine is whether or not these protocols had been adopted.”

He mentioned he’ll set out “subsequent week” the phrases of reference of the separate impartial investigation to make sure that the conclusions are “rock stable”.

Mr Chalk, a former barrister, instructed the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg that “in recent times there was big funding” amid claims that the Conservative’s austerity drive has decayed the prisons property.

Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor has mentioned that Wandsworth, opened in 1851, “actually wants closing”, having been given a ranking of “severe concern” in official annual stories way back to in 2016-17.

It comes after an inmate was in a vital situation after being stabbed at HMP Wandsworth on Sunday afternoon. It’s believed the incident broke out between two prisoners and police had been known as to the scene at 3.20pm.

The Met Police mentioned no arrests have been made and enquiries are ongoing.

In reference to the Khalife investigation, the Met’s counter-terrorism boss Commander Dominic Murphy instructed reporters on Saturday: “When it comes to the investigation, it actually gathered momentum yesterday afternoon, with various calls from the general public, however actually took a distinct course final night time, once we did an intelligence-led search within the Richmond space within the early hours of this morning.

“While we didn’t discover him at that search, whereas we had been at that search, we had various calls from the general public over the subsequent hour or two, giving us numerous sightings of him.”

Khalife was awaiting trial after allegedly planting a faux bomb at an RAF base and gathering data that could be helpful to terrorists or enemies of the UK.