The (not so) great escape
Getting out of jail is harder than ever
Daniel Khalife, a suspected terrorist, enjoyed about 75 hours of freedom after escaping from hmp Wandsworth, in south-west London, on September 6th. Three days later a police officer yanked him off a bike in north-west London. On September 11th he was charged with escaping custody. The court was told that Mr Khalife may have used bedsheets to tie himself to the undercarriage of a food-supply van that had made a delivery.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Back behind bars”
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