Daniel Khalife misspelt ‘secret’ on publicly available document to please Iranian spy handler, court told Khalife, the 23-year-old who escaped from Wandsworth prison last year, is accused of passing secrets to the Iranians for more than two years.

(Sky News) A man accused of spying for Iran allegedly added a misspelling of the word “secret” to a publicly available document in an attempt to please his Iranian handler.

Daniel Khalife, who has admitted escaping from Wandsworth prison, wrote “secert” instead of “secret” on the front page of a document which could be found online, Woolwich Crown Court has heard.

He allegedly sent his contact three documents about military doctrine on 30 December 2021, a week before his arrest.

The notes leaked by Khalife were “useless” and would cause the Iranians to “seriously question” his role as a spy, his trial was told on Friday.

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