Danish Khalife, a former British soldier, was found guilty of spying for Iran

Daniel Khalife, a former British soldier, was found guilty of spying for Iran and will spend a long time in jail after barely getting away.

Daniel Khalife, who used to be in the British Army, was found guilty of spying for Iran.

It was decided that Khalife had gathered and sent information to Tehran, which included the names of special forces troops. He was not found guilty of a charge related to a bomb fake at his army base, though.

He claimed that he got out of Wandsworth jail in London in September 2023 by hiding under a food delivery truck during his hearing at Woolwich Crown Court. Khalife will get “a long custodial sentence” when she is sentenced early next year, according to Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb.

He broke both the Official Secrets Act and the Terrorism Act by what he did. Prosecutors called Khalife’s actions a “cynical game” and said he had talked to someone connected to Iranian intelligence soon after joining the army in September 2018 and later offered to work as a double agent for MI6.

Khalife was accused of gathering private data that, if mishandled, could have been very harmful.

He had become friends with an Iranian with ties to the IRGC on Facebook and built relationships with Iranian agents. One time, he found $2,000 hidden in a dog waste bag in a park in north London.

Head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s counter-terrorism section, Bethan David, said Khalife broke his duty to protect national security and that his actions could have put armed troops in danger and made the UK less safe.

Khalife had a list of 15 active troops, some of whom were in the special forces, but he said he hadn’t given it to Iran because most of the information on it was made up.

A lot of Khalife’s Telegram texts were deleted, so no one knows how much private information he sent to Iran.

Khalife was caught 75 hours after his well-known jail break while riding his bike along a canal trail.