Daniel Khalife to appear in court after being charged with ‘escaping HMP Wandsworth and going on the run for 4 days’
ESCAPED prisoner Daniel Khalife is due to appear in court today charged with fleeing Wandsworth prison.
The 21-year-old is accused of leading cops on a four-day manhunt after he bolted from the South London jail on Wednesday.
Khalife was arrested on a canal towpath in Northolt, West London, on Saturday morning – 12 miles away from the prison.
He is now due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with escaping from custody.
Khalife was detained at around 10.41am after being pulled off a bike by a plain-clothed counter-terrorism officer.
He had a sleeping bag, change of clothes, bottle of water and a Waitrose cool bag which appeared to contain food.
His arrest brought an end to a 75-hour manhunt involving more than 150 anti-terror cops.
The former soldier was being held in Wandsworth while awaiting trial in November for alleged terrorism offences.
Khalife, who was attached to the Royal Signal Corps before being discharged, is accused of leaving fake bombs at an RAF base in January.
He vanished for more than three weeks after the bomb hoax before being arrested on January 26.
Another charge, under the Official Secrets Act, alleges Khalife collected personal information about soldiers from an MoD computer system that could be useful to an enemy.