UK terror suspect jailed in Kenya
Publish date: 07 December 2015
Issue Number: 656
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Tenders
A British man accused of plotting terror attacks in Kenya has been jailed for nine years in Mombasa. Jermaine Grant was jailed for nine charges related to trying to illegally obtain Kenyan citizenship. BBC News reports that he faces separate charges of 'conspiring to improvise an explosive device' and a trial in Mombasa is ongoing. Grant was arrested in 2011 when batteries and chemicals were discovered in his apartment in Mombasa. The 'White Widow' Samantha Lewthwaite is also suspected of being involved in the alleged plot. She escaped arrest in Kenya in 2011 and has been missing since then.
