Daniel Khalife was a British soldier who spied for Iran and dreamed of fame

(BBC) Just after 07:30 on 6 September last year, Skye Vokins was driving along the dual carriageway south of Wandsworth Roundabout, in London.

Scarcely believing her eyes, she saw a man land on the road beneath the rear axle of a delivery truck stopped in front of her car at a pedestrian crossing.

“I saw him drop to the ground and then do a kind of pencil roll,” Ms Vokins recalls.

The man stood up and walked slowly to the nearest pavement.

“I remember him flicking his fringe back and behaving very casually — as if nothing had happened.”

The man was Daniel Khalife, a former British Army soldier who was supposed to be in prison awaiting trial for spying for Iran.

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