A former soldier and pupil at Teddington School, Daniel Khalife from Kingston, went on trial on Tuesday, 8 October.

At trial, jury was sworn in for the trial of 23-year-old Khalife who was accused of passing sensitive information that may be useful to an enemy and escaping from Wandsworth Prison strapped beneath a lorry.

Wearing a blue shirt and navy sleeveless jumper, he appeared at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday charged with four offences.

Khalife escaped from Wandsworth while on remand on terror and espionage charges by strapping himself to the underside of a food delivery lorry on September 6 2023.

CCTV sightings on the day of his escape show Khalife near the White Cross pub in Richmond carrying a Waitrose bag and in Mountain Warehouse, where he is believed to have bought a sleeping bag.

He then bought a Samsung mobile phone for £89 from the Gift Shop, in Hammersmith the following day.

The court also heard that Khalife was seen in M&S in Kew Retail Park, a branch of Sainsbury's in Richmond, and in Chiswick, with a hat pulled down and a mask covering his nose and mouth.

On 9 September, three days after his scape, he was seen in McDonald's before he was arrested on the footpath of the Grand Union Canal, in Northolt, later that morning where he was pushed off a bike by a counter-terrorism officer.

Khalife also faces a charge of gathering, publishing or communicating information that might be useful to an enemy, namely Iranian intelligence, contrary to the Official Secrets Act between May 1 2019 and January 6 2022.

Additionally, he was accused of perpetrating a bomb hoax in Beaconside, Staffordshire, on or before January 2023, in which he placed "three canisters with wires on a desk in his accommodation" to spark fears it was "likely to explode or ignite and thereby cause personal injury or damage to property".

Khalife's fourth charge alleges that he elicited or attempted to elicit personal information about armed forces personnel that was likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism from a Ministry of Defence administration system on August 2 2021.

However, he denied all charges.

The trial, before Justice Cheema-Grubb, is expected to last about six weeks.