Former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after a brave prison escape was sentenced to 14 years

Former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after courage Three -day escape He was sentenced to more than 14 years behind the bars from the London prison in London on Monday for issuing his country.

Daniel Khalife23, he was convicted in November for violating the Law on Official Secrets and Terrorism to provide restricted and classified material to Iran.

“As a young man, you made an exemplary soldier, however, the repeated violations of your oath to service, you showed that you were a dangerous fool instead,” said Bobbie Cheem-Grubb justice.

“You are an attention seeker and you enjoyed the infamance you attracted after your escape from prison,” the judge added, According to the BBC.

The jurors at Woolwich Crown Court rejected his testimony that he was trying to work for the UK as a double agent.

Khalife’s spying case did not attract much attention until he broke out from the Wandsworth prison on a insidious food delivery truck. He was on the run for three days before the police arrested him on a bicycle by a channel in London.

Khalife declared himself guilty of escaping during the trial, but continued to challenge spies.

Khalife’s lawyer, who claimed that his works were more like a plot from “Scooby Doo” than James Bond thriller, said his client conveyed only to imprecise information, including “ridiculously false” documents that did not cause real damage.

“There is no way that Mr. Khalife will end up the spies lesson,” said lawyer Gul Nawaz Hussain. “His intentions were neither evil nor cynical.”

The court also listened to a number of mitigating factors, including a psychological report from 2023, diagnosed with an antisocial disorder of personality and a narcissistic disorder of personality, the BBC reported.

But prosecutors said Khalife actually played a “cynical game” claiming he wanted to be a spy after delivering a large amount of limited and classified material to the Iranian intelligence service, including the names of special forces officers.

Khalife testified that he was in contact with people in the Iranian government, but that all part of the conspiracy was ultimately acting as a double agent for Britain, a scheme he developed from watching the TV show “Homeland”.

BBC reported that he was cleaned of committing a Mass of bombing in his barracks in Raf Stafford 2023, after three wire canisters were left at the base where he lived and worked.

Authorities have announced that he has made a true risk of national security because of the threat Iran represents. Police noticed that the UK had disrupted 20 Iranian parcels, including the assassination plans.

British security services were not aware of Khalife’s contacts with Iranians until he contacted MI6, the British side of the intelligence service, to offer to work as a double agent.

He reached for MI6 anonymously, saying that he gained the trust of his Iranian executives and rewarded him, leaving him a cash of 2,000 dollars (£ 1,578) in a dog dog bag in northern London.

Khalife joined the army at the age of 16 and was awarded to the royal corpus of the signal, a communication unit arranged with troops on the battlefield, as well as special forces and intelligence departments.

He was told that he could not join the intelligence service because his mother was from Iran.

At the age of 17, he addressed a man associated with Iranian intelligence and began to transmit information, prosecutors said. He was awarded a secret security approval when he participated in a joint exercise at Fort Cavazos in Texas in early 2021.

The judge noted that his violation of safety was on the US soil to do diplomatic damage.

Khalife’s escape from a prison from the Victorian era has drawn attention to greater failures in aging and overcrowded corrective Nation. Currently, an investigation is underway that Khalife managed to escape and whether others helped.

Audit has found 81 security omissions in prison, BBC reported. This also resulted in an upgrade to CCTV cameras that have not worked for more than a year, said prison independent supervision.

Two men were arrested on charges that they had helped him after he had escaped.