A MAN has been arrested over the alleged escape of prisoner Daniel Khalife from Wandsworth Prison.
The 24-year-old was detained yesterday after terror cops swooped on a house in East London.
Daniel Khalife allegedly escaped from Wandsworth prison
He was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender but has since been bailed to a date in late April.
The Met confirmed the suspect is not a worker at HMP Wandsworth.
Detective Chief Superintendent Gareth Rees, of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “This arrest follows months of careful investigation into the alleged escape and enquiries remain ongoing into this.”
Khalife, 21, allegedly fled the South London jail under a food delivery truck in September.
A court was previously told he strapped himself to the underside of the vehicle using a material “which may have been from bedsheets”.
He is accused of leading cops on a four-day manhunt before he was arrested on a canal towpath in Northolt, West London – 12 miles away from the prison.
Khalife had a sleeping bag, change of clothes, bottle of water and a Waitrose cool bag which appeared to contain food.
The former solder was being held in Wandsworth while awaiting trial in November for alleged terrorism offences.
Khalife, who was attached to the Royal Signal Corps before being discharged, is accused of leaving fake bombs at an RAF base.
He has pleaded not guilty to all counts and is now awaiting trial.
Another charge, under the Official Secrets Act, alleges Khalife collected personal information about soldiers from an MoD computer system that could be useful to an enemy.
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