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The Trial

Daniel Khalife: Wild Goose Chase

The Trial

Daily Mail

True Crime

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Caroline Cheetham and Jack Hardy are back with the very latest from Woolwich Crown Court as Daniel Khalife himself takes to the stand. In this episode we bring you Khalife’s testimony. We hear about his parents, his upbringing, the reasons he joined the military and the justification for some of his actions that brought him to court. We hear how he used Wikileaks and the CIA website to create fake documents to pass to Iranian agents. Daniel Khalife claims this was to further Britain’s national interests and to expose Iran’s intelligence officers working within the UK. Welcome to Episode 6: Wild Goose Chase Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Jack Hardy Editor: Isabelle 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

Seriously popular.

0:05.0

Welcome to the trial of Daniel Kaleef. I'm Caroline Cheetham.

0:09.0

And I'm Jack Hardy.

0:10.0

We'll be back in just a second. An urgent manhunt has been launched after a terror suspect escaped from Wandsworth

0:27.9

prison.

0:28.9

Escape by strapping himself to the bottom of a food delivery truck.

0:32.1

A soldier Daniel Knee brief has pleaded not guilty to escaping from Wandsworth.

0:37.0

It sounds like a gripping crime thriller, but this feels less John the Carrey and more like a scene from porridge.

0:44.0

Come on, come on, don't leg.

0:46.0

Who's that?

0:48.0

A couple of skate convicts.

0:50.0

Oh.

0:51.0

That was in 1979.

0:52.0

Today in real life allegations like this are taken a lot more

0:57.0

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

1:01.4

underway. He's facing allegations that in September

1:04.6

last year he used bedsheets to strap himself to the underside of a food truck to

1:09.7

break out of H.M. P. Wandsworth. For three days Daniel Kaleef was on the run and on the front page of every newspaper.

1:17.1

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

1:22.1

He's also charged with exploiting his position in the

1:24.8

British Army to pass intelligence to what's been called an enemy state, Iran. He denies all the charges against him.

1:33.7

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

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