Inmate stabbed at HMP Wandsworth and left in critical condition days after terror suspect Daniel Khalife escaped
AN inmate has been stabbed and left in a critical condition at HMP Wandsworth – just days after terror suspect Daniel Khalife escaped.
The man was rushed in an ambulance to a major trauma centre just after 3pm – with an air ambulance also sent to the prison.
Sky News reports that the stabbing was part of an altercation between prisoners.
Terror suspect Daniel Khalife, 21, escaped from the prison on Wednesday.
Cops snared Khalife after bugging the phones of people linked to the fugitive.
He will appear in court tomorrow charged with escaping from a prison.
The Met Police combined forces with MI5 and M16 to catch ex-soldier Khalife after his escape from Wandsworth Prison on Wednesday morning.
Intercepted messages led them to a house in Richmond, South West London – where they missed Khalife by minutes.
But just hours later undercover cops dragged Khalife off a bicycle and wrestled him to the ground on a canal towpath in Northolt.
The Mail reports that the hunt for Khalife was directed from the government’s new counter-intelligence “nerve centre” – with counter-terror cops and MI5, M16 and GCHQ spies working under one roof.
Two guards at Wandsworth Prison have been suspended after Khalife’s escape, the newspaper also claimed.
Both of the guards are thought to have been tasked with overseeing the exit of the Bidfood catering van later known to have been carrying Khalife from the prison.
The trail for Khalife went cold after the raid on the Richmond address – until he was seen in nearby Chiswick.
Cops got an eavesdropping warrant after the breakthrough, and received intelligence that Khalife was heading for the Grand Union Canal in Greenford.
Khalife was soon caught in a massive dragnet of specialist plain-clothes officers on the canal towpath.
Armed police yelled “Don’t move or we’ll shoot” as they finally caught jailbreak terror suspect.
The ex-soldier laughed at cops and winked at passers-by as he was cuffed following four days on the run.
Officers hid on a grassy verge behind a wall near a canal towpath before pouncing at 10.41am.
They dragged him off a bicycle, believed to be stolen, wrestled him to the floor then pinned him against the underside of a bridge.
It brought to an end one of the biggest police searches in recent years — involving 150 anti-terror cops and an all-ports alert.