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Prison breakouts are very rare in the UK and when inmates do go on the run they attract a lot of attention.

Former British soldier Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was caught on Saturday morning after he escaped from Wandsworth prison, in southwest London.

He is believed to have been working in the kitchen and wearing a chef's uniform when he held on to straps on a food truck to make his getaway.

Here is a look at some of the other most memorable escapes:

Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs

In probably the country's best known prison breakout, Biggs climbed over a 30ft wall with a rope ladder and jumped into a waiting removals van to flee Wandsworth in 1965.

He had been jailed for 30 years for his part in the robbery of a Glasgow to London Royal Mail train in 1963 and escaped with a then record haul of £2.6m in what became known as the "heist of the century".

Biggs flew to Brazil, where he lived as a fugitive for 36 years before returning to England voluntarily with his son in 2001 as his health failed.

He served eight years of his original sentence in high security Belmarsh prison and later Norwich prison before being released on compassionate grounds. Biggs died aged 84 in 2013.

Cold War British-Soviet double agent George Blake

Blake famously escaped from London's Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966, with the help of two peace activists and other inmates.

The breakout, just a few years after the MI6 agent was sentenced to 42 years in jail for working as a Soviet spy, was a major embarrassment for Harold Wilson's government.

Bars in a window were sawn away so he could make his way to the perimeter wall before climbing over it using a rope ladder.

Blake was smuggled out of the country in a camper van and driven across Europe to East Berlin inside a wooden box attached under a car before he started his new life in Moscow.

IRA prisoners Pearse McAuley and Nessan Quinlivan

McAuley and Quinlivan held a prison officer hostage and fired shots from a smuggled gun before scaling the walls of Brixton prison in 1991, where they were awaiting trial on charges of planning IRA assassinations and bombings.

They stole a prison officer's car before eventually fleeing to the Republic of Ireland.

The Crown Prosecution Service said in 2009 the men would not be prosecuted because there was "no realistic prospect" of conviction.

Conman Neil Moore

Moore didn't need to use violence or scale any walls to make his getaway when he walked out of Wandsworth in January 2014 after fooling staff into believing he had been granted bail by sending a letter to prison officers.

He had been on remand awaiting trial accused of posing as bank staff to dupe companies out of up to £2m when he set up a website and email account purporting to be from the Prison Service.

Matthew Baker and James Whitlock

The pair broke out of Pentonville prison in November 2016 in a caper compared at the time to the historic 1962 Alcatraz escape, when brothers John and Clarence Anglin and fellow inmate Frank Morris sculpted dummy heads and piled towels and clothing under their blanket to hide their absence.

Cellmates Baker and Whitlock used clothes, bedding and food to make body shapes under their sheets so that anyone looking through the observation hatch would think they were sleeping.

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They used smuggled cutting tools to saw the cell bar and open a window cover before making their escape across roofs towards the front of the jail, then tied a bedsheet to a CCTV pole and swung themselves over the perimeter wall.

Prison staff did not realise they were gone until 15 hours after they were last seen but Baker was found two days later hiding under a bed at his sister's home with dyed hair and a fractured leg, while Whitlock was caught after six days on the run.