Escaped convict - Anyone else slightly fascinated by how he's escaping capture?

[Malariahilaria]

I don't know why but this has captured my imagination. Daniel Khalife escaped prison by clinging to the underside of a delivery van. Now I'm wondering when did he let go? Where did he hide? Is it like the fugitive where he hides in a hen house out house and steals a doctor's uniform from a hospital? Where would you hide if you had to? Where do you get food and water and shelter?

Yes, silly little boy.

he is a very naughty boy

would he have been acquitted?

In a movie or TV show this would deffo be the way to get your double agent back into play - prosecute him, lock him up, stand by while he escapes and reintegrates with the people he was spying on while pretending to spy on you.

Also in a TV show the lad would probably be sussed and shot by the aforesaid people he was spying on while pretending to spy on you, leaving his handler to suffer ten minutes of angst before going home to wrestle with his complicated love life.

Mind you, the stuff I watch is all American, maybe the UK does it differently. Don't tell me JAG and NCIS is not an accurate representation of real life

It would be foolish of him to stash belongings in a secure lockup and also incredibly expensive, unless someone else put it in recently and went to collect it to hand over.

The burning question is what does he know? It's obviously serious or else there wouldn't have been such a presence at the airports, including Manchester, ferry ports and train stations.

Sightings in Chiswick now, so he's north of the Thames.

not that far from wandsworth

I know and easy to get to. Richmond Park was obviously a diversion then?

An ex governor of Belmarsh said on the radio the other day that he should have been held there instead of Wandsworth.

But Cat B prisons are supposed to still be secure and keeping prisoners inside prison is the main purpose of the job ! I’m sure I was taught that on day one of training!

Someone fecked up here and there’s no use just blaming the government!

A prisoner escape from Wandsworth. It’s the staff at Wandsworth who are to blame who were on duty .They failed that basic duty. It remains to be seen whether this was an inside job or just sheer negligence. Time will tell.

Recruiting lots of young, inexperienced kids and getting them to run a wing was always going to end in disaster.

Anyone else think the description of what he's wearing is very strangely worded? 'dark coloured clothing on his legs' - is that trying to describe something other than trousers?

@Hawkins0009

Re ATC, monitoring airspace and spy exfil !!

"true but with that event who knows"...Well actually I do, albeit a tiny bit...

You're off at a complete tangent with that link, the ATC outage a couple of weeks back caused handling capacity problems with civil traffic, it didn't effect basic radar and airspace monitoring.

Forget the high value asset extraction Bond space age stuff, this is young signaller not far out of basic, possibly with access to cash (? family, friends) I reckon he either skipped the UK very quickly by commercial means (road, rail, air) or he's holed up somewhere.

They are not sure if it’s trousers or tracksuit bottoms.

He’ll be sticking out like a sore thumb in the sea of shorts and chinos worn in SW London.

But surely tracksuit bottoms are still trousers?

But whatever they are, what's wrong with the word 'trousers'?

It's a generic description that covers most kind of 'clothing worn on the legs'.

I think this is likely but I would be aghast if any of his army colleagues were helping him. Unless they were part of the same plot/group/conspiracy in which case, I suspect they would have been rumbled before now anyway.

No, there is difference.

And the main point is that he's changed out of the chef's red/white trousers!

Sure, means he has someone helping, but not someone experienced enough to get him out.

So if you saw a man you thought was him but he was wearing black tracksuit bottoms and you'd been told that the man being hunted was last seen wearing dark blue trousers you'd decide it wasn't him on that basis?

dark trousers they just said on the news

That’s why they aren’t making the distinction.

i dont spose he will be walking down chiswick high road

Eh?

Do you not think people can change clothes, especially when they are trying to evade capture or that people reporting a sighting might make a mistake?

Houseboats searched on Chiswick Mall this morning… they think he’s hiding in a house down there that’s empty

Although I’m sure they would have searched it by now 🤷🏼‍♀️

Someone has been watching Happy Valley.....

Well, if it’s so easy to change clothing when someone is trying to abscond then why bother with description of the clothing in first place?