Welcome to the trial of Daniel Khalif.

I'm Caroline Cheatham and I'm Jack Hardy.

We'll be back in a second. An urgent manhunt has been launched after a terrorist suspect escaped from Wonsworth prison.

By strapping himself to the bottom of a food delivery truck and driven off the prison. It sounds like a gripping crime thriller,

but this feels less John LeCarray and more like a scene from porridge. Come on, come on, don't flag.

Who's that? A couple of escaped convicts. Oh. That was in 1979. Today, in real life, allegations like this are taken a lot more seriously.

At Woolwich Crown Court, the trial of a former British soldier is underway.

He's facing allegations that in September last year he used bed sheets to strap himself to the underside of a food truck to break

out of HMP-Wandsworth. For three days, Daniel Khalif was on the run and on the front page

of every newspaper. He was finally arrested as he rode a bike on a canal towpath in West London.

He's also charged with exploiting his position in the British army to pass intelligence

to what's been called an enemy state, specifically Iran. He denies all the charges against him.

Join me, Caroline Cheatham and my colleague Jack Hardy, as the trial podcast covers the case.

Welcome to the trial of Daniel Khalif.

So, after a trial lasting for seven weeks, the jury in the trial of Daniel Khalif have been

sent out now to begin their deliberations. They're considering, in effect, if he is guilty

of spying for Iran while he was serving as a British

soldier. Now he denies all three charges, but as we know, he's already pleaded guilty to escaping

from prison. So as with every trial before the jury retire to their deliberation room, they heard

the closing arguments of the prosecution and the defence.

It's the last chance, if you like, that both sides have got to persuade them of their case.

Prosecutor Mark Hayward, Casey, told the jury that Daniel Khalif had endangered national security

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