Runner describes seeing escaped terror suspect Daniel Khalife hours before arrest

The Independent

Runner, Frank Noon, saw Wandsworth Prison terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife further down Thames hours before his arrest in Greenford.  Noon saw the 21-year-old “lying on his back” while he was running along the river.   “It was only when I saw him three hours later and he was wearing the same clothes that I thought that’s the same guy that’s weird,” Mr Noon told Sky News.  Khalife was tackled off his bike by a police officer on a canal towpath and then arrested, ending a 75-hour nationwide manhunt.  The Metropolitan Police confirmed the former soldier was arrested by a plainclothes counter-terrorism officer near Rowdell Road in west London just before 11am on Saturday (9 September) morning and is currently in their custody.

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00:00 went for a run, a 10k run around the bridges, Barnes Bridge, Chiswick and Kew Bridges.

00:07 When I got to Chiswick Bridge, it was probably about 7 o'clock in the morning, maybe 10 past

00:13 7, and I just saw this guy, I don't know if he was asleep or just lying on his back on

00:19 a bench.

00:20 I just thought, "Oh, that's a bit odd," because he didn't look like a rough sleeper.

00:27 He just looked like some young guy who just decided to have a bit of a lie down.

00:31 I thought, "That's a bit weird."

00:33 And then a thought did flash through my head, maybe it was the escape con, and I thought,

00:37 "Don't be silly, it can't possibly be."

00:39 And then it was only when I saw him three hours later, and he was wearing the same clothes

00:45 and everything, and I thought, "Oh, that's the same guy.

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