The Trial of Daniel Khalife

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In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you an exclusive interview with a former military intelligence officer who appeared as an expert witness in the trial of Daniel Khalife. Dr Frank Ledwidge has years of experience working in human intelligence and has detailed knowledge of the Iranian intelligence apparatus that Daniel Khalife has now been convicted of assisting while he was a serving soldier.

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In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the verdicts in the trial of Daniel Khalife after he was found guilty of spying for Iran and gathering the personal details of soldiers, but not guilty of perpetrating a bomb hoax. The episode features an exclusive interview with Commander Dominic Murphy of the Metropolitan Police about Daniel Khalife's audacious escape from prison and the investigation into his espionage.

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In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the closing speeches of the prosecution and defence, as the jury in the trial of Daniel Khalife retired to consider their verdicts.

Prosecutor Mark Heywood KC claimed Daniel Khalife endangered national security with his one-man spying mission, but Gul Nawaz Hussain KC, for the defence, told jurors that the only person he hurt was himself.

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In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the end of Daniel Khalife’s cross-examination by the prosecution in which he strenuously denied that he wanted help from agents of Iran after he escaped from prison. The episode also features the evidence of a defence expert who said the supposedly sensitive documents Daniel Khalife had been passing to the Iranians would have been effectively useless to them.

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In this episode Caroline and Jack have the moment Daniel Khalife changed his plea to Guilty and admitted escaping from Wandsworth Prison strapped under a food delivery van. 

He was cross examined in the witness box by the prosecutor Mark Heywood about the spying charges he still denies. He said he was a patriot and did not deserve to be sent to Belmarsh Prison.

He admitted he had made mistakes, and he had told lies but he wasn't a terrorist. 

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A quick Trial Update from Caroline and Jack after Daniel Khalife's three days in the witness box. 

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In this one Daniel Khalife says during his time as a "double agent" he was acting like a mad man at times - thinking he could be James Bond. He also denies that the Iranians had anything to do with his prison break. 

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In this episode Caroline and Jack have Daniel Khalife's evidence about why he escaped from Wandsworth Prison - he said it was so he would be classified as a high-risk prisoner and better protected from some of the most serious offenders. 

During his evidence to the jury at Woolwich Crown Court he said he used kitchen trousers which he clipped to the underside of a food delivery lorry to create an escape sling. He was then on the run for three days.

He also said he tried on several occasions to tell MI5 and MI6 that he was acting as a double agent by sending worthless information to Iran - but he was then arrested. 

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Caroline Cheetham and Jack Hardy are back with the very latest from Woolwich Crown Court as Daniel Khalife himself takes to the stand.

In this episode we bring you Khalife’s testimony. We hear about his parents, his upbringing, the reasons he joined the military and the justification for some of his actions that brought him to court. We hear how he used Wikileaks and the CIA website to create fake documents to pass to Iranian agents. Daniel Khalife claims this was to further Britain’s national interests and to expose Iran’s intelligence officers working within the UK.

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Caroline Cheetham and Jack Hardy are back with the very latest from Woolwich Crown Court in The Trial of Daniel Khalife.

In this episode we bring you the details of Khalife’s alleged escape. We hear how he clung to the bottom of a food lorry which prison guards allowed to leave HMP Wandsworth despite knowing a prisoner was missing. The man-hunt that ensued was one of the most

high-profile and expansive in recent history. In police interviews, Khalife expresses his fears he has ‘pissed off’ the whole country as the search disrupts international travel but adds that turning himself in would have been ‘boring’.

Welcome to Episode 5: The Escape

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