2: Daniel Khalife: The 'Triple Agent'

The Trial

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Caroline Cheetham and Jack Hardy are back with the very latest from Woolwich Crown Court in The Trial of Daniel Khalife. In this episode we hear about the moment Daniel Khalife allegedly strapped himself to the underside of a food truck to break out of prison. The prosecution continue their arguments that he was actively engaged in securing confidential information and supplying this to Iran, an ‘enemy state’. We learn more about Khalife’s ambitions to work in military intelligence, his interaction with Iranian agents and his contact with both MI5 and MI6. Welcome to Episode 2: The 'Triple Agent' Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Jack Hardy Editor: Izzy Bougeard Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Executive Producer: Lucy Vallance A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	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.
0:27.6	Escape by strapping himself to the bottom of a food delivery truck.
0:31.6	The soldier Dan belief has pleaded not guilty to escaping from Wonsworth prison.
0:36.6	It sounds like a gripping crime thriller, but this feels less John LeCarray and more like a scene from porridge.
0:43.6	Come on, come on, don't flag.
0:45.8	Who's that?
0:47.2	A couple of escaped convicts.
0:49.1	Oh.
0:50.2	That was in 1979.
0:52.3	Today, in real life, allegations like this are taken a lot more seriously.
0:57.8	At Woolwich Crown Court, the trial of a former British soldier is underway. He's facing allegations
1:03.1	that in September last year, he used bed sheets to strap himself to the underside of a food
1:08.4	truck to break out of HMP OnWonsworth. For three days,
1:12.6	Daniel Khalif was on the run and on the front page of every newspaper. He was finally arrested
1:17.9	as he rode a bike on a canal towpath in West London. He's also charged with exploiting his
1:23.8	position in the British Army to pass intelligence to what's been called an enemy
1:27.8	state, specifically Iran. He denies all the charges against him. Join me, Caroline Cheatham,
1:35.1	and my colleague Jack Hardy, as the trial podcast covers the case. Welcome to the trial of
1:41.0	Daniel Khalif.
1:48.0	The man you are dealing with is not merely a young man and junior soldier. He is a resourceful man, so that by the time he found the net closing around him,
1:52.0	he absconded from his barracks, set himself up with the means to survive,
1:56.0	and even when remanded in custody, managed to free himself from that.
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