After British prisoner Daniel Khalife was caught on camera escaping from prison, the countrywide manhunt entered its third day.
Mark Rowley, the commissioner for London’s Metropolitan Police, told U.K. radio station LBC on Friday that police authorities were not ruling out the possibility that Khalife had assistance from others. According to them, the escape was preplanned and it may have included help from those working in the prison.
“To work out a prison escape, and how you are going to do the logistics of it, get the right equipment and how you are going to do it, it’s unlikely that you would do that in the spur of the moment,” Rowley said.
Daniel, a former British soldier who was awaiting trial for allegedly planting fake bombs at an army base escaped a London prison Wednesday by clinging to the underside of a delivery truck.
Khalife also faced charges of allegedly working for Iran and eliciting personal information from a U.K. Ministry of Defence database, according to BBC.
About 150 counter-terrorism officers are involved in the search effort, the Metropolitan police have said. Police Helicopters and vans have canvassed multiple areas in London.
Investigators say that Khalife was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, red and white checkered trousers, and brown steel-toe cap boots, and they believe he is still wearing a prison chef’s uniform as he had worked in the prison kitchen while incarcerated.
