The former Staffordshire soldier, Daniel Khalife, will be sentenced for espionage and prison escape

Khalife, 23, was serving in the British army when “exposed to military personnel to serious damage” when collecting confidential information and passing it to the agents of the country of the Middle East.

They paid him in cash for the secret information and told the managers that he would stay in the army for more than 25 years for them.

In September 2023, Khalife escaped Category B Prison HMP Wandsworth, in southwest London, clinging to the bottom of a food cast truck.

He was caught on a channel towing path by a civil detective in the days later.

The prosecutors in his trial said that Khalife played “a cynical game”, claiming that he wanted a double agent to help British intelligence services, when he in fact gathered “a large body of restricted and classified material.”

In November, Woolwich Crown Court’s jury determined that Khalife had violated the law of official secrets and the terrorism law.

He was authorized to carry out a deception of bombs and had already admitted during his judgment to escape from Wandsworth’s prison.

Police described Khalife as the “last character of Walter Mitty who had a significant impact on the real world.”

He joined the Army in 2018, two weeks before his 17th birthday, and served with the Royal Corps of Signals.

In 2021, Khalife secretly gathered the names of the soldiers that serve, including those of the Special Forces.

He took a photo of a written list of 15 of them, after receiving an internal promotions spreadsheet in June 2021.

Prosecutors believed that he sent the list to Iran before eliminating any evidence.

After his arrest, he told the Police that he had wanted to offer himself to the United Kingdom security agencies all the time, after having sent an email to Mi6 already in 2019.

Khalife told the jury that he wanted to prove that the bosses were wrong after they told him that his Iranian heritage could prevent him from working in military intelligence, and that he came up with his elaborate double agent plot after seeing the thriller of the thriller of the Homeland television.

In November 2021, he made an anonymous call to the MI5 public report line, confessing to have been in contact with Iran for more than two years.

He offered to help British security services and said he wanted to return to his normal life.

Defending Khalife during his trial, Gul Nawaz Hussain KC said that the double agent’s plot was “misleaded” and “sometimes limiting in the slap”, more Scooby-Doo than James Bond or Homeland.

Prosecutors said Khalife prepared a deception of bombs in his Staffordshire Barracks iN January 2023, but the trial listened to how a soldier who arrived in the room took out the device cables to prove that it was not real.

A bomb removal unit was called after the police attended and looked at the device several days later.

Khalife must be sentenced to Woolwich crown cut Mondays.