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After a bold three -day escape from London’s prison, a former British soldier, who was convicted of spy on Iran, betrayed his country and was more than 14 years later in the bar.
Daniel Calif, 23, was convicted in November that he had violated the official secret and terrorist methods, saying that it provided a classified material restricted to Iran.
“As a young man, you had a model soldier, but through repeated violations of your service, you showed you a dangerous fool instead.” Judge Grab said.
JU, a Uridge Crown Court, refused to testify that he was working in the UK as a double agent.
Khalife’s spy incident did not attract much attention until he got out of the Onezworth Prison in the abdomen of the food delivery truck. He fled for three days before the police arrested him on a bicycle on a London canal.
Khalife was convicted of escape during his trial, but continued to disagree with the spy charges.
Calife’s lawyer claims that his act is more like a “Skubie de” conspiracy than James Bond’s thriller, his client does a “laugh and fake” document that does not cause actual damage. He said he just passed the incorrect information.
“What Halif did is not to be a spy -up lesson,” said Gal Nawaz Hussein. “His intention was neither ominine nor cynical.”
However, prosecutors actually claimed that he wanted to be a spy after delivering a large amount of restricted materials to Iran’s Intelligence report, including the name of the special unit executive. He said he played the game.
Khalife was in contact with the people of the Iranian government, but it is part of the strategy to eventually work as a UK double agent, a plan developed from watching the television program “Homeland”. I testified.
Authorities said that they offered a true risk to national security for the threat of Iran. Police pointed out that Britain has confused Iran’s 20 plots, including the assassination plan.
British security services did not recognize the contact with the Iranians with the Iranians until they contacted the MI6, the foreign Intelligence report in the United Kingdom, to work as a double agent.
He said anonymously to Mi6, gained the trust of Iranian handlers and rewarded him by leaving a $ 2,000 cash (£ 1,578 pounds) on a dog’s poo bag in Northern London.
Khalife joined the Army at the age of 16 and was assigned to a royal signal squad deployed with battlefield, special unit, and Intelligency.
He was told that his mother was from Iran and could not participate in the Intelligence report.
At the age of 17, the prosecutor said that he reached out to the man related to the Intelligence report in Iran and began to convey information. When he participated in a joint exercise in Fort Cabazos in Texas in early 2021, he was given NATO’s secret security clearance.
Judge pointed out that his safety violations in the United States could cause diplomatic damage.
The escape of Califes from the Victorian Dynasty has paid attention to the aging of the country and the overcrowded correction system. Currently, there is a survey on how Khalife could escape and whether others helped.
After he escaped, two men were arrested for helping him.