Daniel Abed Khalife: Met Police offers reward of up to £20,000 for tip-off on escaped terror suspect

The police have confirmed a sighting of escaped terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife in southwest London on Wednesday morning (September 6), with a reward of up to £20,000 offered for information leading to his arrest.

Scotland Yard said an eyewitness reported seeing a man fitting Khalife’s description “walking away from a BidFood van that had stopped near the south entrance to Wandsworth Roundabout”, about a mile from Wandsworth Prison.

The ex-British Army soldier, who is accused of planting fake bombs at a military base and spying, escaped from Wandsworth Prison on Wednesday morning. The search for him has entered a third day and remains an ‘around the clock’ operation led by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.

The force said the sighting was at the “top of Trinity Road, shortly after his escape”. The 21-year-old former soldier was then seen “walking towards Wandsworth town centre.” The police have described the potential sighting as “very significant” and “one of several key lines of enquiry that officers are pursuing”.

Khalife was working in the kitchen and wearing a chef’s uniform when he held onto straps underneath a food lorry after it left the prison at 7.32am. It is possible he has fled the country, investigators believe.

More than 150 of the Met’s counter terrorism officers and staff, with support from colleagues across the Met and in other forces, have been working at pace around the clock, making extensive enquiries to try to find Khalife.