Escaped terror suspect Daniel Khalife arrested in Chiswick
Escaped terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife was tackled off his bike by a police officer on a canal towpath and then arrested, ending a 75-hour nationwide manhunt.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed the former soldier was arrested by a plainclothes counter-terrorism officer on Rowdell Road in west London just before 11am on Saturday morning and is currently in their custody.
At a press conference on Saturday afternoon, Commander Dominic Murphy, the Met’s counter-terrorism chief, said Khalife was spotted, “pulled off a bike” and handcuffed by the officer, who was working as part of their investigation, in the Northolt area near Chiswick.
This came after the manhunt had "really gathered momentum" on Friday afternoon, he said, with multiple reports of confirmed sightings, which led to an overnight search of a home in the borough of Richmond.
Commander Murphy confirmed there have been no further arrests yet but threatened: “Anyone who supported Khalife before, during or after – I can tell you we will be looking for those individuals”
Khalife’s arrest follows a national four-day search after the 21-year-old was believed to have escaped from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday morning by strapping himself to the bottom of a delivery lorry after leaving the prison kitchen in a cook’s uniform.
