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Daniel Khalife congratulated officer who arrested him after alleged prison escape, court told

Pic: Metropolitan Police Service

A police officer's told a court that he was 'congratulated' by an alleged fugitive after catching him on a canal towpath.

Former soldier Daniel Khalife who is from Stafford is accused of escaping from Wandsworth prison strapped to the underside of a food delivery lorry.

The plain-clothes detective sergeant told a jury he pulled him off a bike by his arm in west London, three days after he'd gone missing.

 

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