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Khalife, 23, gained global attention when he escaped from London’s Wandsworth prison for three days while being held on espionage charges.
ADVERTISEMENTA former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after an audacious three-day escape from a London prison was sentenced on Monday to more than 14 years in prison.Daniel Khalife, 23, was convicted in November of violating the Official Secrets Act and Terrorism Act for providing restricted and classified material to Iran’s intelligence services.”As a young man you had the makings of an exemplary soldier, however, through the repeated violations of your oath of service, you showed yourself to be instead a dangerous fool,” Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said at Woolwich Crown Court in London.His sentence includes six years each for breaking the Official Secrets Act and the Terrorism Act, and a further two years and three months for escaping from prison. Khalife did not react as he was led from court following the sentencing.Prosecutors said during the trial last year that Khalife had played a “cynical game” by claiming he wanted to be a spy after he had delivered a large amount of restricted and classified material to Iran, including the names of special forces officers. Jurors had rejected Khalife’s testimony that he was trying to work for the UK as a double agent.Khalife’s espionage case had not received much attention until he escaped from Wandsworth prison on the underbelly of a food delivery truck in September 2023. He went on the run for three days before being arrested along a canal path in London.Khalife pleaded guilty to the escape during his trial, but continued to contest the spying charges.The former soldier testified that he had been in touch with people in the Iranian government but maintained that it was all part of a ploy to ultimately work as a double agent for Britain, a scheme he developed from watching the TV show “Homeland”. Khalife’s lawyer, Gul Nawaz Hussain, had said his client was more “Scooby Doo” than “007”. Khalife had only passed along imprecise information, including “laughably fake” documents that caused no actual damage, Hussain argued during the trial.”There’s no way that what Khalife did is going to wind up being a lesson for budding spies,” Hussain said. “His intentions were neither sinister nor cynical.”However, British authorities said Khalife presented a true risk to national security because of the threat that Iran poses. Police noted that the UK has disrupted 20 plots by Iran, including assassination plans.’Amateurish’ but harmfulBritish security officials were not aware of Khalife’s contacts with Iran until he reached out to MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence service, to offer his services as a double agent.Khalife reached out to MI6 anonymously, saying he had earned the trust of his Iranian handlers and that they had rewarded him by leaving a bag in a London park that contained $2,000 in cash (€1,950).At 16, Khalife enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the Royal Corps of Signals, a communications unit that is deployed with battlefield troops, as well as special forces and intelligence squads.He was told he could not join the intelligence service because his mother is from Iran.ADVERTISEMENTAt 17, Khalife reached out to a man connected with Iranian intelligence and started passing along information, prosecutors had said. He was given NATO secret security clearance when he took part in a joint exercise at Fort Cavazos in Texas in early 2021.The judge noted that his security breaches while on US soil could have caused diplomatic damage.Khalife said most of the material he gave to his Iranian handlers was either information he made up or documents that were available online and did not expose any British army secrets.British police said last year that while Khalife’s actions were “amateurish” and contained elements of “fantasy”, he had harmed the UK’s interests by providing “highly sensitive” information to Iran.ADVERTISEMENTKhalife’s escape in September 2023 from the Victorian-era Wandsworth prison drew attention to more significant failures in the nation’s ageing and overcrowded correctional system. An inquiry is currently under way into how he was able to escape and whether others helped.Two men have been arrested on charges of helping Khalife after he escaped.Additional sources • AP
