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Daniel Khalife’s lawyers are reminding the judge how they described his actions as more Scooby Doo than James Bond.
This isn’t to make light of what he did, but to highlight how competent or not he was, they add.
The majority of what he sent or wanted to send to Iran was fabricated, they say, with at times laughably fake documents.
Gul Nawaz Hussain KC told Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb “What Daniel Khalife clearly chose to do was not born of malice, was not born of greed, religious fervour or ideological conviction.
“His intentions were neither sinister nor cynical.”
The judge is questioning these arguments, saying there are “hints” that’s not actually what was going on.
It can’t simply have been how they are describing, the judge says.
Khalife committed the crimes between the ages of just 17 and 20, the judge heard, when he had “a sense of unswerving self-belief and gross overestimation of ability”.
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