Pic: Met Police Police said he had been planning his "pretty audacious" escape for "quite some time" and the court heard he wrote in his prison diary of a "failed" attempt on 21 August last year.

A former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after an audacious three-day escape from a London prison was sentenced Monday to more than 14 years behind bars for betraying his country.

The two were among five inmates who staged a spectacular escape from the Vale de Judeus prison just north of Lisbon in September, scaling a long ladder provided by an outside accomplice during ...

THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M JULIE CORNELL AND I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. TAYVON MORRISON WAS ONLY FACING TIME FOR THE ESCAPE FROM A TREATMENT CENTER, NOT THE PREMEDITATED MURDER HE COMMITTED WHEN HE ...

The 23-year-old was serving in the British Army when he started spying for Iran and later escaped from Wandsworth prison on a food delivery truck, ITV London's Political Correspondent Simon Harris ...

A former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after an audacious three-day escape from a London prison was sentenced Monday to more than 14 years behind bars for betraying his country.

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Watch as former soldier Daniel Khalife was sentenced on Monday ...

Khalife spent four days on the run after using prison trousers to fasten himself to a vehicle and escape category B prison, HMP Wandsworth, in south-west London. His escape launched one of the ...