{"id":186744,"date":"2023-09-08T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=186744"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:09:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:09:59","slug":"celebs-offer-tongue-in-cheek-advice-for-police-hunting-daniel-khalife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/celebs-offer-tongue-in-cheek-advice-for-police-hunting-daniel-khalife\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebs offer tongue-in-cheek advice for police hunting Daniel Khalife"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Anneka Rice and Omid Djalili offer tongue-in-cheek advice for police hunting fugitive Daniel Khalife &#8211; as social media users joke &#8216;Gazza may turn up with some cans and a loaf&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Celebrities and social media users share memes and jokes as hunt continues<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Follow our LIVE updates on the search for Daniel Abed Khalife<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TV presenter Anneka Rice and comedian Omid Djalili are among those offering tongue-in-cheek advice to police hunting fugitive and suspected Iranian spy Daniel Khalife &#8211; as officers from the Met carry out intense searches of Richmond Park.<\/p>\n<p>Khalife, 21, escaped from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday, sparking huge searches for the terror suspect and fears that it had been pre-planned with help from inside the prison.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police said it had been searching Richmond Park in southwest London, around six miles from the jail, as part of the nationwide manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>Rice, 64 &#8211; best known for her reality show Challenge Anneka which saw her undertake massive trials for good causes &#8211; led an array of lighthearted jokes on X, formerly known as Twitter, as searches continued.<\/p>\n<p>The reality star appeared in the first series of Channel 4 programme Celebrity Hunted, which saw her and celebrities such as Gogglebox icons Steph and Dom try to evade military, police and intelligence service experts for charity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75209161-12495643-image-a-5_1694167861484.jpg\" height=\"730\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Khalife escaped from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday by clinging to the underside of a delivery van<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75209165-12495643-image-a-4_1694167859102.jpg\" height=\"646\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Anneka Rice posted a tongue-in-cheek tweet linking the search for Khalife at Richmond Park to her own experience of hiding in the green space on Celebrity Hunted<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75209725-12495643-image-a-6_1694168160514.jpg\" height=\"728\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Comedian Omid Djalili joked about the suspected Iranian spy enjoying Richmond Park&#8217;s attractions &#8211; while plugging a local comedy night<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75209721-12495643-image-a-7_1694168194883.jpg\" height=\"871\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Another tweet referenced Paul Gascoigne turning up at the scene of a police siege with chicken and a fishing rod in a misguided attempt to help<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Fugitive &#8216;Iranian spy&#8217; Daniel Khalife: The class joker at Keira Knightley&#8217;s school who loved YouTubers and dreamed of being a cyberwarrior &#8211; and boasted to fellow prisoners that he was &#8216;going to be famous&#8217;\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>She evaded capture until the close of the series &#8211; and her early efforts to flee from London saw her hide in Richmond Park, where the Met has been searching for Khalife.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet posted this morning, with a photograph of her taken in London as she was on the run, Rice wrote: &#8216;Note for police! On Celebrity Hunted I hid in Richmond Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Then a stranger drove me to the south coast. I hid under a large bass guitar at Dire Straits&#8217; John Ilsley&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Then he took me in his speed boat to the Isle of Wight where I hid under some garlic. You&#8217;re very welcome.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Omid Djalili, meanwhile, joked about the park&#8217;s best-known attractions &#8211; and a nearby comedy night.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: &#8216;Police are searching for the escaped terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife in parkland in south-west London, not far from the prison from which he absconded, officers have said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park a suspected hideout. Last seen having lunch at Pembroke Lodge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Believed to have bought a ticket for Headliners Comedy Club tonight. Police have arrested Stephen K Amos just to be on the safe side.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another X user posted a meme referencing footballer Paul Gascoigne, who turned up at a police stand-off with killer Raoul Moat in 2010 in a misguided attempt to defuse the situation.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote: &#8216;BREAKING: Gazza has turned up to Richmond Park with fishing rods &amp; chicken claiming to be a friend of Daniel Khalife&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75209775-12495643-image-a-10_1694168300820.jpg\" height=\"760\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A police-issued mugshot of Daniel Khalife. He was discharged from the Army in May<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75209289-12495643-image-a-8_1694168257731.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Police in Richmond Park, south-west London on Friday. Searches of the park were carried out overnight as officers continue to look for fugitive Khalife<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/12\/75209203-12495643-Met_Police_commissioner_Sir_Mark_Rowley_told_LBC_on_Friday_it_wa-a-27_1694173747820.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told LBC on Friday it was &#8216;extremely concerning&#8217; that Khalife was on the loose &#8211; and has not ruled out the theory that he had help from the inside<\/p>\n<p>A retired police sergeant who features on the show Hunted says the UK has the &#8216;best military in the world&#8217; &#8211; and has suggested that Khalife&#8217;s military training might actually help him evade capture.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Thomas, who is a ground hunter on the thrilling Channel 4 series, says the suspected spy&#8217;s &#8216;resilience&#8217; will come into play as he tries to remain out of sight.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Thomas, 54, told the PA News agency:\u00a0&#8216;What you&#8217;ve got to consider is that we consider ourselves to have the best military in the world, so he&#8217;s had the best training &#8211; you can&#8217;t dispute that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Because you&#8217;re no longer in the Army or in the armed forces, it doesn&#8217;t mean you become untrained overnight, that experience is always with you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What the organisations have got against them is it&#8217;s good weather, it&#8217;s not cold at night, so even sleeping rough is not going to be uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You could happily find somewhere comfortable and, as an ex-military individual, he&#8217;ll be used to sleeping outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What will come into play more than anything else will be the individual&#8217;s resilience.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Thomas said it is a &#8216;needle in the haystack&#8217; case, and the key to finding Khalife is how quickly members of the public report potential sightings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The biggest thing is 70 million separate CCTV you have in the country, and that&#8217;s the members of the public,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s all about people dropping those little clues, those traces that the organisations can pick up on and follow. It&#8217;s very similar to Hunted and Celebrity Hunted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If there&#8217;s a sighting in a town and we get to that town very quickly, and those people haven&#8217;t moved away because they don&#8217;t know they&#8217;ve been spotted, that gives us more opportunities to catch them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And it&#8217;s the same when someone is on the run.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/12\/75212617-12495643-image-a-28_1694174118723.jpg\" height=\"698\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/12\/75212703-12495643-image-a-31_1694174203036.jpg\" height=\"466\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The food truck Daniel Khalife is believed to have used for his escape from HMP Wandsworth<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/12\/75209239-12495643-image-a-32_1694174209419.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>HMP Wandsworth, where Daniel Khalife had been kept while awaiting trial on terror charges<\/p>\n<p>Met Police chiefs, meanwhile, say that Khalife&#8217;s escape from Wandsworth on Wednesday was &#8216;clearly pre-planned&#8217; &#8211; and\u00a0fear he may have had help on the inside.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Mark Rowley, commissioner of the Met, branded it &#8216;extremely concerning&#8217; that the 21-year-old, who was able to sneak out of HMP Wandsworth in south west London on Wednesday, was &#8216;on the loose&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Khalife, an ex-soldier who was awaiting trial after allegedly planting a fake bomb at an RAF base and gathering information that might be useful to terrorists or enemies of the UK, was discharged from the Army in May.<\/p>\n<p>He is believed to have escaped by strapping himself on to the bottom of a delivery lorry after leaving the prison kitchen in a cook&#8217;s uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Mark told LBC: &#8216;It is clearly pre-planned, the fact that he could strap himself onto the bottom of the wagon.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hunt for Khalife is a &#8216;massive operation&#8217; involving &#8216;well into three figures of officers&#8217; as well as help from constabularies around the country and Border Force, the Commissioner told the radio station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12495643\/Anneka-Rice-Omid-Djalili-Daniel-Khalife-social-media-users-joke-Gazza-turn-cans-loaf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anneka Rice and Omid Djalili offer tongue-in-cheek advice for police hunting fugitive Daniel Khalife &#8211; 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