Former UK Soldier Daniel Khalifa was sentenced to 14 years for spies for Iran | News of the courts

The court says that Khalife, who had previously escaped from prison, forwarded more than two years to the ‘hostile state’ information.

Former British soldier who caused the trade after escaping from prison before trial, he convicted the UK court for 14 years for spying for Iran.

A referee at Woolwich Crown Court in Southeast London said on Monday that Daniel Khalife, 23, had embarked on a “dangerous and fantastic plan” involving the transfer of sensitive information to Iranian intelligence for cash.

Khalife was convicted In November, spies and “terrorism” of charges, as well as to escape in prison in 2023.

The former soldier, whose mother is Iran, has collected information over a period of two and a half years, while published in the UK and the United States, including the names of the elite special forces, before being arrested and charged in 2023.

“The very fact that you have started with this dangerous and fantastic plan shows your immaturity and lack of wisdom,” said Justice Bobbie Cheem-Grubb.

Prosecutors accused Khalife of playing a “cynical game”, contacting a man related to Iranian intelligence after joining the British army.

Khalife said that Patriot was and that he had contacted the British intelligence service MI6 and M5 about his contacts, saying he wanted to be a “double agent”. He said he and his family hated the Iranian government.

He was fired from the armed forces after being charged.

Khalife also admitted that he had escaped from London in prison Wandsworth in September 2023. While he was waiting for the trial for other charges. Tied to the bottom of the delivery van, causing a Nationwide Manhunt Before being caught for days later.

Former soldier, who grew up in southwestern London, joined the military in 2018 at the age of 16.

Cheema-Grubb said he was “no doubt” that Khalife used his Iranian heritage to gain the trust of his contacts.

During the trial, the jurors featured a photo from Khalife’s phone with a handwritten list made of 15 soldiers, including their number of services, rankings, initials, surname and unit.

The details of the special forces staff were “undoubtedly valuable, and giving them to the enemy state would very much increase the risk of them and their operational efficiency,” the judge said.

Khalife allegedly remained in contact with Iranian managers while published at Fort Hood in Texas in the United States between February and April 2021, when he was assigned the second highest level NATO Security approval, one below the “Cosmic Top Secret”.

He also traveled to Turkiya to meet his Iranian executives and twice raised money in exchange for information, according to the authorities.

Khalife claimed that the documents he forwarded to his Iranian manager were useless, whether publicly available or those he created himself.

His lawyer Gul Nawaz Hussain, who drew the contrast between “007 and Scooby doo” in terms of Khalife’s abilities and actions, said he was not encouraged by malice, greed, religious fervor or ideological beliefs.

“If he was a true spy, he wouldn’t have acted as he did,” Hussain said.