So, how do you catch a prisoner on the run?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
How does a man wearing red and white check trousers escape from a prison underneath a moving truck?
Daniel Khalife - as we record - is still on the run. So where has he gone, how did he do it and what are the implications of the whole saga?
Also on today's episode - Chris Pincher resigns as an MP, Britain (sort of) rejoins the... via the Horizon project) and we discuss abortion laws in Mexico.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | We understand he was dressed as a chef. |
| 0:15.0 | So yes, he was wearing red and white check trousers or white t-shirt and brown boots. |
| 0:19.6 | It does sound very much like that was kitchenware |
| 0:21.4 | that he was wearing and that was what he was last seen in. Clearly he might be wearing something |
| 0:25.8 | different now, which is why we've provided the public with a photograph of Daniels Lee. |
| 0:30.1 | Imagine being dressed pretty much like Ronald McDonald and still thinking you can make a run |
| 0:35.5 | for it. The prisoner, 21 years old, |
| 0:38.4 | who may, by the time you're listening to this, |
| 0:40.5 | have been caught, managed to make his escape |
| 0:43.4 | by clutching on to the underside of a truck in Wandsworth Prison |
| 0:48.9 | when he was working in the kitchens there. |
| 0:52.4 | And today we're going to be asking how he did it and what happens next. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:02.8 | The newsagents. It's Emily. And it's Lewis. And later on in the show we are going to be talking about what is perhaps the biggest piece of our post-Brexit architecture |
| 1:13.5 | with Europe that is coming back into place. We are joining or rejoining the Horizon program. |
| 1:19.3 | Europe, or indeed the world's biggest collaborative international science program worth |
| 1:24.3 | 100 billion euros a year. We're going to be rejoining. We're going to be talking about how that is going to be a template for our further engagement with Europe in the |
| 1:30.9 | future. But we're going to start with the escape of Danubeer and not just what it says about this |
| 1:37.1 | extraordinary manhunt that it's kicked off to find a man who, we're told, poses a low |
| 1:43.0 | risk to the public and yet is literally charged with |
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