Colonel Philip Ingram, an ex-British Army intelligence officer, says the 21-year-old former soldier will have gone to ground.
An intelligence expert has warned that police hunting escaped prisoner Daniel Khalife have a 48-hour window to find him before it potentially becomes a "long, slow slog".
After he was accused of carrying out a bomb hoax at the RAF base this year, he was arrested at the site and charged with terror offences and charges relating to the Official Secrets Act earlier. Before he escaped yesterday morning, just before 8am, he was due to go to trial in November and was being held on remand at HMP Wandsworth.
He explained: "They’ll find him eventually, the network is pretty good. I’ve no qualms about that whatsoever. The best window is within the first 24 to 48 hours, so we’re still within that window. It depends on the level of help that he’s got and where he’s gone. "He’ll have been chosen for the Royal Signals because he had displayed his ability to use initiative. Basic military training will give most people a level of confidence and basic skills. Combine that with a bit of out of box thinking and you can solve most problems. He’s just applied that into an escaping perspective."
He added that the Met has a group of specialists called Super Recognisers who will be monitoring CCTV closely and "they'll pick him up if he moves". Mr Ingram went on to say Khalife will "almost certainly" have gone to ground "which means he's had help". He said: "Someone else will have helped him plan this, this is not something he will have done on the spur of the moment.
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