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Agence France-Presse

UK police on Saturday arrested suspect accused of “terror offences” who escaped from a London prison earlier this week, sparking a nationwide manhunt.
“Metropolitan Police officers have arrested Daniel Khalife. Officers apprehended him just before 11am today in the Chiswick area, and he is currently in police custody,” the force said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, currently in India at the G20 summit, told UK media he was “very pleased with the news”.
“My thanks to the police officers for their fantastic work over the past couple of days,” he added.

The 21-year-old former soldier fled from Wandsworth prison in south London on Wednesday morning, probably by clinging to the bottom of a delivery van.
His disappearance triggered a major hunt with extra security checks introduced at ports and airports amid fears he may try to flee the country. But following confirmed sightings in south west London, he was eventually apprehended in the Chiswick neighbourhood on Saturday.
Met Police Commander Dominic Murphy told reporters: “It’s been about 75 hours since he went missing from the prison to the point of his arrest. That’s pretty quick given the challenge of trying to find this individual.
“In terms of the investigation, it … really took a different course last night, when we did an intelligence-led search in the Richmond area. While we were at that search, we had a number of calls from the public over the next hour or two, giving us various sightings of him,” he added.
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Khalife was arrested while riding a pedal bike along a canal towpath by a plain clothes officer at 10.41am local time.
Khalife last appeared in court in London on January 28 and was remanded in custody over two incidents at the Royal Air Force base in Stafford, central England, near the army barracks where he lived.
He is accused of “attempting to elicit information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism” in August 2021. He was also charged with a bomb hoax by placing a suspect device at the RAF base on January 2 this year.
His trial at Woolwich Crown Court – attached to Belmarsh prison – had been set to begin on November 13.

Khalife was reported to have been working in the prison kitchen when he absconded.
Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said earlier this week that strapping was found underneath the delivery van which appeared to indicate that Khalife may have held onto the underside of it to escape.
Chalk also announced an independent investigation into the escape and also ordered urgent reviews into the categorisation and placement of everyone held at Wandsworth prison and all those in custody for terror offences.
The minister said Saturday that he will leave “no stone unturned” in the investigations.
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Wandsworth, which opened in 1851, is a Category B prison – the second highest security level. Terror suspects and prisoners are routinely held in maximum security Category A facilities.
John Podmore, a former governor at two prisons in London, told the BBC that the escape could have been an inside job, and that he should have been held at nearby Category A Belmarsh prison instead.
“It’s much more suited to the levels of security that someone like this, charged but not convicted, needs. I can’t understand why he wasn’t at Belmarsh,” he added.


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Escaped UK terror suspect Daniel Khalife arrested after nationwide manhunt

A spoof ‘wanted’ poster is seen outside outside Wandsworth prison in London on Friday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Daniel Khalife is seen in an undated police photo. Photo: Metropolitan Police via AFP

Police officers patrol in the Chiswick area in west London as the hunt for Daniel Khalife enters its fourth day on Saturday. Photo: PA via AP

Terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife, a former UK soldier, makes daring escape from London jail

A general view of Wandsworth prison in London, from which a British soldier awaiting trial on terror-related charges escaped on Wednesday. Photo: PA via AP

Daniel Abed Khalife is seen in a photo released by the Metropolitan Police. Photo: Metropolitan Police via AFP

Britain’s Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs in 2011. Photo: AFP

Five prisoners killed in car crash after mass jailbreak in Lebanon

Police inspect the damaged car in Hadath, Lebanon. Photo: Reuters

Relatives of fugitive prisoners who had fled a detention centre gather outside the facility in Baabda, east of Lebanon's capital Beirut, on November 21, 2020, to enquire about their fate after it was announced that some were recaptured while others had died in the escape. - At least 69 people fled a detention centre in Lebanon on November 21, including five who later died in a car accident on a nearby road, sparking a wide-reaching manhunt, police said. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Policemen stand guard outside a detention centre from which prisoners had fled earlier in Baabda, east of Lebanon's capital Beirut, on November 21, 2020. - At least 69 people fled a detention centre in Lebanon on November 21, including five who later died in a car accident on a nearby road, sparking a wide-reaching manhunt, police said. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Fugitive gangster who made daring jailbreak in helicopter captured in France

A massive manhunt was launched after Redoine Faid’s daring escape in July

(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 13, 2013 police officers investigate around the destroyed door of the Lille-Sequedin prison, in Sequedin, after Redoine Faid, one of France's most dangerous gangsters, known for brazen attacks on cash-in-transit vehicles, today blasted his way out of jail after taking several wardens hostage. - Redoine Faid is still on the run since he escaped onboard a helicopter from a prison in Reau on July 1, 2018. His escape impacts the French penitentiary administration, already under pressure. (Photo by PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP)

(FILES) This file photo taken on September 24, 2013 shows the entrance of the Sud-Francilien prison in Reau, outside Paris. French armed robber Redoine Faid has escaped from prison in Reau on board of a helicopter on July 1, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Thomas SAMSON

epa06857891 (FILE) A picture dated 12 January 2011 shows Redoine Faid posing for photographs to promote his book 'Braqueur : Des cites au grand banditisme', in Paris, France. Redoine Faid, who served a 25 year sentence, has escaped from the prison of Reau, Seine-et-Marne, on 01 July 2018, onboard a Alouette II helicopter abandoned near Paris, in Gonesse. EPA-EFE/OLIVIER ARANDEL FRANCE OUT; BELGIUM OUT; SHUTTERSTOCK OUT / NO MAGS SALES SHUTTERSTOCK OUT NO MAGAZINES

The helicopter abandoned by notorious French criminal Redoine Faid after his escape from a prison. Photo: EPA

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The 21-year-old former soldier is thought to have fled from Wandsworth prison in London by clinging to the bottom of a delivery van
Despite fears that he might try to flee the country, Khalife was eventually caught riding a bicycle in the British capital


Former soldier Daniel Khalife, 21, is thought to have fled from Wandsworth prison in London by clinging to the bottom of a delivery van


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