Jury can disregard whether young ‘spy’ was naive and foolish

Jurors trying a former soldier accused of spying for Iran were told to disregared whether he was ‘naive and foolish’ when he handed classified intelligence to his handler. Daniel Khalife, 23, collected £1,500 in a dog poo bag from his handlers in Barnet just months after he joined the Royal Corps of Signals in 2019, jurors have heard. He sparked a nationwide manhunt when he escaped from HMP Wandsworth by strapping himself to the underside of a lorry on 6…