A second person has been charged with assisting former soldier Daniel Khalife after he escaped from Wandsworth Prison.
Adeel Khan, 30, from Waltham Forest in east London, is accused of helping Khalife after he escaped from HMP Wandsworth by tying himself to the underside of a food delivery truck in September 2023.
Khan has also been charged with possession of a phone in prison, the Metropolitan Police said.
He was charged by postal requisition earlier this month and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
Last week Imran Chowdhury, 25, from Chingford, east London, was also charged with helping Khalife after the former solider broke out of jail.
He appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 7 January and pleaded not guilty.
Khalife, 23, was found guilty of spying for Iran in a trial last November.
Jurors at Woolwich Crown Court found he had breached the Official Secrets and Terrorism Acts after he was accused of handing secret information, including a list of soldiers – some of whom were serving in the SAS – to Iranian spies.
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Khalife first contacted an Iranian spy soon after he joined the Army, at the age of 16, and claimed he wanted to be a “double agent” and “thought he could be James Bond” but had only passed on fake or useless information.
He had already admitted escaping from Wandsworth Prison, but was cleared of carrying out a bomb hoax at the army barracks where he had been based.
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Khalife, who was a lance corporal in the Royal Signals, used a sling made from trousers worn by inmates working in the kitchen to cling to the underside of a food delivery lorry on 6 September, 2023.
After a nationwide manhunt, he was arrested by police three days later when he was spotted riding a stolen mountain bike along the canal towpath in Northolt, west London – about 14 miles away from Wandsworth Prison.
