CCTV shows Khalife changing clothes in McDonald's

A assemblage has seen CCTV footage of a erstwhile Army worker accused of escaping from Wandsworth Prison buying apparel successful Marks & Spencer, changing apparel successful a McDonald's toilet and and topping up his telephone successful Sainsbury's.

Footage shown astatine the Woolwich Crown Court proceedings of Daniel Khalife besides showed him successful the room country of the situation connected 6 September 2023, earlier a Bidfood motortruck was seen driving retired of the main gate.

The prosecution alleges helium was hiding underneath successful a makeshift sling adjacent the rear axle.

Mr Khalife, 23, is besides accused of collecting delicate subject accusation for Iran. He denies the charges against him.

The assemblage heard connected Tuesday that a pistillate driving down the van, Skye Vokins, saw him rolling retired from nether the lorry adjacent Wandsworth roundabout successful southbound London, flick his fringe and locomotion calmly off.

Later connected the time of the alleged escape, Mr Khalife was recorded connected CCTV further westbound successful Richmond.

He was seen successful Mountain Warehouse, looking astatine a CCTV camera, putting a bluish headdress successful a Waitrose container and past leaving, seemingly without paying.

The adjacent time CCTV showed him buying 2 shirts and immoderate jogging bottoms successful Marks & Spencer and past topping up his telephone successful Sainsbury’s successful Hammersmith.

On 8 September helium was recorded successful a newsagent speechmaking articles astir his alleged flight successful the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, earlier buying the erstwhile paper.

The assemblage were told Mr Khalife had bought a 2nd manus telephone and made a hunt for “Can a telephone beryllium tracked from IMEI?”. An IMEI fig is simply a unsocial identifier for a mobile telephone handset.

The prosecution says helium besides sent messages connected Telegram to an relationship linked to Iranian intelligence, including a connection that work “I wait”.

On the greeting of Saturday 9 September, CCTV caught him successful a McDonald’s successful Southall, westbound London, wherever helium changed apparel successful the toilet and bought an expresso.

Not agelong aft that helium was arrested connected a canal towpath successful adjacent Northolt.

The time aft helium was recaptured, Mr Khalife told the interviewing serviceman that successful the service “you’re virtually trained for flight and evasion", the tribunal was told.

"You’re trained to unrecorded successful the woods, you’re trained to termination people,” helium said.

“You enactment a worker successful a cage, helium lone thinks astir however tin I get retired of the cage."

Mr Khalife denies escaping from prison, gathering accusation utile for Iran, collecting names of peculiar forces soldiers utile to terrorists and perpetrating a weaponry hoax astatine his barracks successful Stafford.