The UK government has promised to chase down a terror suspect who escaped from a London prison, raising questions about how he escaped from the maximum facility.
The Metropolitan Police in London is looking for Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, who engineered a daring jailbreak from Wandsworth prison on Wednesday while dressed as a cook.
According to the UK's PA Media news agency, Khalife is a serving member of the British military who is awaiting trial on terror charges for allegedly building fake bombs at a military base.
PA Media said Daniel Abed Khalife escaped the facility by clinging to a delivery van.
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British Justice Secretary Alex Chalk says the government will start an independent probe into the event. On Thursday, he told the UK parliament that he had already ordered an internal investigation into the decision to place Khalife in a lower-security prison.
"No stone must be left unturned in determining what happened." "Who was on duty that morning, in what roles, from the kitchen to the prison gate, and what protocols were in place," Chalk explained.
Khalife, according to the justice secretary, "will be caught in due course and will face a trial."
Following the jailbreak, opposition MPs in Britain slammed the ruling Conservative government, accusing ministers of plunging the court system into disarray due to years of austerity measures.
Labour Party politicians asked that the government "urgently" explain how Khalife escaped, calling Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to "get a grip."
"We know that the criminal justice system is in disrepair after 13 years of Tory rule." "We know there are significant issues with prisons," MP Shabana Mahmood was reported as saying by PA Media.
