{"id":3689,"date":"2025-02-03T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/former-british-soldier-convicted-of-spying-for-iran-after-audacious-prison-escape-is-sentenced-to-14-years\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:39:37","slug":"former-british-soldier-convicted-of-spying-for-iran-after-audacious-prison-escape-is-sentenced-to-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/former-british-soldier-convicted-of-spying-for-iran-after-audacious-prison-escape-is-sentenced-to-14-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after audacious prison escape is sentenced to 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after an audacious <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/daniel-khalife-caught-by-uk-police-escaped-from-a-london-prison\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">three-day escape<\/a><\/span> from a London prison was sentenced Monday to more than 14 years behind bars for betraying his country.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/daniel-abed-khalife-wandsworth-prison-escape-london-united-kingdom\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Daniel Khalife<\/a><\/span>, 23, was convicted in November of violating the Official Secrets Act and Terrorism Act for providing restricted and classified material to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are an attention seeker and you enjoyed the notoriety you attracted following your escape from prison,&#8221; the judge added, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvgeke2r6zno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Police search for former soldier suspected of terrorism offences after prison escape, in London \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/03\/500d8489-1371-43dc-be6d-a37900b5fb82\/thumbnail\/620x413g8\/354b8e3c15bf6bb142163eb34ae020bc\/2025-02-03t132514z-1167495119-rc2n33ajownr-rtrmadp-3-britain-security-prisoner.jpg?v=a599723035d2f104d7a2d01edbe96ef8 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/03\/500d8489-1371-43dc-be6d-a37900b5fb82\/thumbnail\/1240x826g8\/1c16135520a3b2682e617c4cd0ef4910\/2025-02-03t132514z-1167495119-rc2n33ajownr-rtrmadp-3-britain-security-prisoner.jpg?v=a599723035d2f104d7a2d01edbe96ef8 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">A wanted sign featuring an image of Daniel Abed Khalife, a former soldier who is suspected of terrorism offences, is displayed, near Wandsworth prison which he escaped from, in London, Britain, September 7, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Anna Gordon \/ REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jurors in Woolwich Crown Court had rejected his testimony that he was trying to work for the U.K. as a double agent.<\/p>\n<p>Khalife&#8217;s spying case had not received much attention until he broke out of Wandsworth Prison on the underbelly of a food delivery truck. He was on the run for three days before police arrested him on a bicycle by a canal in London.<\/p>\n<p>Khalife pleaded guilty to the escape during his trial, but continued to contest the spying charges.<\/p>\n<p>Khalife&#8217;s lawyer, who argued his acts were more like a plot from &#8220;Scooby Doo&#8221; than a James Bond thriller, said his client had only passed along imprecise information, including &#8220;laughably fake&#8221; documents that caused no actual damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no way that what Mr. Khalife did is going to wind up being a lesson for budding spies,&#8221; attorney Gul Nawaz Hussain said. &#8220;His intentions were neither sinister nor cynical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court also heard a number of mitigating factors, including a psychological report from 2023 diagnosing him with Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>But prosecutors said Khalife had in fact played a &#8220;cynical game&#8221; by claiming he wanted to be a spy after he had delivered a large amount of restricted and classified material to the Iranian intelligence service, including the names of special forces officers.<\/p>\n<p>Khalife testified that he had been in touch with people in the Iranian government but 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 &#8220;Homeland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reported that he was cleared of perpetrating a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-64439119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bomb hoax at his army barracks at RAF Stafford<\/a>\u00a0in 2023, after three wired cannisters were left at the base where he lived and worked.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said he presented a true risk to national security because of the threat that Iran poses. Police noted that the U.K. has disrupted 20 plots by Iran, including assassination plans.<\/p>\n<p>British security services were not aware of Khalife&#8217;s contacts with the Iranians until he contacted MI6, the U.K.&#8217;s foreign intelligence service, to offer to work as a double agent.<\/p>\n<p>He reached out to MI6 anonymously, saying he had earned the trust of his Iranian handlers and that they had rewarded him by leaving $2,000 cash ($1,578 pounds) in a dog poo bag in a north London park.<\/p>\n<p>Khalife joined the army at 16 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.<\/p>\n<p>He was told he could not join the intelligence service because his mother is from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>At 17, he reached out to a man connected with Iranian intelligence and began passing along information, prosecutors said. He was given NATO secret security clearance when he took part in a joint exercise at Fort Cavazos in Texas in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The judge noted that his security breaches while on U.S. soil could have caused diplomatic damage.<\/p>\n<p>Khalife&#8217;s escape from the Victorian-era prison drew attention to larger failures in the nation&#8217;s aging and overcrowded correctional system. An inquiry is currently underway into how Khalife was able to escape and whether others helped.<\/p>\n<p>An audit found 81 security failings at the prison, the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvgeke2r6zno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a>. It also resulted in upgrades being made to CCTV cameras which had not worked for more than a year, the prison&#8217;s Independent Monitoring Board said.<\/p>\n<p>Two men have been arrested on charges of helping him after he escaped.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \"\/><!-- tags --><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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