{"id":40348,"date":"2025-01-06T06:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/man-charged-with-helping-ex-british-soldier-in-london-prison-getaway\/06\/01\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T06:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:34:12","slug":"man-charged-with-helping-ex-british-soldier-in-london-prison-getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/man-charged-with-helping-ex-british-soldier-in-london-prison-getaway\/06\/01\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with helping ex-British soldier in London prison getaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">LONDON (AP) \u2014 A man has been charged with assisting a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/british-soldier-khalife-iran-spy-prison-escape-d4b32efec6cb63faa1b6302f502f7a3a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:former British soldier later convicted of spying for Iran;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">former British soldier later convicted of spying for Iran<\/a> in his escape from a London prison, police said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Imran Chowdury, 25, was charged with one count of assisting an escaped prisoner for helping Daniel Khalife after he broke out of Wandsworth prison in September 2023, the Metropolitan Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Khalife strapped himself beneath a food delivery truck and ignited a massive police search while he was on the run for three days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-body md:hidden\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-5 flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-xl pb-5 shadow-[0_0_1px_rgba(200,160,251,.63),0_2px_6px_1px_#F3E6FE]\">\n<h4 class=\"m-auto block px-4 pb-4 pt-2 text-lg font-bold leading-6\">Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inbox<\/h4>\n<p class=\"m-auto px-4 pb-4 text-sm font-normal\">See for yourself \u2014 The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Khalife, 23, was convicted in November of violating Britain\u2019s Official Secrets Act and Terrorism Act by collecting information useful to an enemy \u2014 Iran. He faces sentencing later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Police did not specify what assistance Chowdury provided to Khalife while he was on the run. A 25-year-old woman who had been arrested on suspicion of helping him will not face charges, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Khalife had testified at his trial that his contacts with the Iranian government were a ploy to work as a double agent for Britain, but his lawyer said his James Bond aspirations were more \u201cScooby Doo\u201d than \u201c007.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Prosecutors said his crime was serious and that he had passed on secret and sensitive information that could have exposed other troops to serious harm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/man-charged-helping-ex-british-110927861.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) &mdash; A man has been charged with assisting a former British soldier later convicted of spying for Iran in his<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/man-charged-with-helping-ex-british-soldier-in-london-prison-getaway\/06\/01\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}