 Prison bosses have been branded a 'laughing stock' after a terror suspect managed to escape through the front gates by hanging on to the bottom of a food delivery truck. Daniel Abed Khalife, 22, was still wearing his red chequered chef's trousers when he slipped out of HMP Wandsworth in southwest London on Wednesday. Professor Ian Acheson, a former head of security at the category B jail, said the escape was 'at best' a 'catastrophic system failure'. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday, he said: 'Well, at best, this is a catastrophic system failure that actually starts with the allocation of Khalife to Wandsworth and ends with a terror suspect working in a prison kitchen of an establishment in crisis (and) escaping in a vehicle. 'So, it's incredibly embarrassing for the prison service but it's not entirely surprising given what we know about what's going on Wandsworth at the moment.' Professor Acheson, also a former prison governor, went on: 'I'm afraid to say that Wandsworth, like so many of our flagship prisons, is in freefall. 'You've only got to look at the most recent inspections, and other monitoring reports, that reveal it's filthy, it's vermin infested, on any day 30-44% of frontline staff are unavailable to work. 'Morale is awful. I mean, frankly, if you cannot even manage to get the bins emptied in a place like Wandsworth what else is going wrong?' Police have issued an urgent appeal to the public to help trace Daniel Abed Khalife (Picture: Met Police) Khalife is said to have made his way to the prison's delivery area still in his chef's uniform after serving breakfast to fellow inmates shortly before 8am yesterday. An insider told The Sun: 'He slipped under the delivery van dropping off groceries at the kitchen and strapped himself under the vehicle. 'After the food supplies were unl){kind=link}
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Prison bosses have been branded a ‘laughing stock’ after a terror suspect managed to escape through the front gates by hanging on to the bottom of a food delivery truck.
Daniel Abed Khalife, 22, was still wearing his red chequered chef’s trousers when he slipped out of HMP Wandsworth in southwest London on Wednesday.
Professor Ian Acheson, a former head of security at the category B jail, said the escape was ‘at best’ a ‘catastrophic system failure’.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, he said: ‘Well, at best, this is a catastrophic system failure that actually starts with the allocation of Khalife to Wandsworth and ends with a terror suspect working in a prison kitchen of an establishment in crisis (and) escaping in a vehicle.