Live updates as manhunt launched after Wandsworth prison escape

A manhunt is underway after a terror suspect escaped from prison on Wednesday morning, sparking an "urgent" police hunt.

Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, went missing from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday shortly before 8am, where he was being held awaiting trial for terror offences and alleged breaches of the Official Secrets Act. The soldier is accused of planting fake bombs at a military base. He has denied all the charges against him.

Counter-terror police are understood to be searching for him, with all airports and ports in the country reportedly on alert. Passengers travelling through Manchester Airport are facing major delays and queues at security due to the 'national incident', the MEN reports. There are similar scenes at Glasgow Airport. Travellers have reported that police and border force officers are checking the IDs of people who have already gone through security. Huge queues have been forming as a result.

Khalife was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, red and white chequered trousers and brown steel-toe-cap boots, the Metropolitan Police said, and is slim, with short brown hair. He is 6ft 2in.

Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command said: "We have a team of officers who are making extensive and urgent enquiries in order to locate and detain Khalife as quickly as possible. However, the public can help us as well and should anyone see Khalife, or have any information as to where he might be, then please call 999 immediately. I also want to reassure the public that we have no information which indicates, nor any reason to believe that Khalife poses a threat to the wider public, but our advice if you do see him is not to approach him and call 999 straight away."