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.
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.