Pic: Met Police Police said he had been planning his "pretty audacious" escape for "quite some time" and the court heard he wrote in his prison diary of a "failed" attempt on 21 August last year.

A former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after an audacious three-day escape from a London prison was sentenced Monday to more than 14 years behind bars for betraying his country.

A former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after an audacious three-day escape from a London prison was sentenced Monday to more than 14 years behind bars for betraying his country.

Daniel Khalife has been sentenced to 14 years and three months in prison for spying for Iran and for his elaborate plot that saw him escape jail. In September 2023, the 23-year-old clung to the ...

but instead was locked up in a category A high-security prison in London as a consequence of his actions. Days after his escape, he appeared at the Old Bailey via a video link from HMP Belmarsh.