British terror suspect Jermaine Grant has been deported back to the United Kingdom(UK) after completing his jail term in Kenya.
According to police, Grant was flown to the UK on Thursday using Kenya Airways, accompanied by Kenyan security officials, and was arrested by British Authorities immediately after he landed at Heathrow Airport.
His deportation comes after a Mombasa court ordered Grant to be deported once his prison sentence had elapsed following a case made by prosecutors for him to be sent away back to his home country last year.
Grant who was linked to the Al-Shabaab terror group and Samantha Lewthwaite, the “White widow” of the July 7 London terrorist bomber Germaine Lindsay was arrested by the police back in 2011 after they found bomb-making materials in his flat in Mombasa.
He was later prosecuted and sentenced to four years in prison in 2019, alongside a separate nine-year sentence for forgery after he forged his Canadian passport.
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Police believed Grant was responsible for planning a bombing campaign against hotels popular with foreign tourists, as he had previously been apprehended in 2008 over a plot to attack a police base on a bus trying to enter Somalia while dressed in a burka.
According to Capital News, investigating officers found chemicals, switches, and a manual on explosives in the apartment, which he is believed to have shared with Lewthwaite, the White Widow on the run being hunted down by the authorities.
During his arrest, Grant was found carrying a forged Canadian passport. When the police searched his apartment, Lewthwaite fled the scene, escaping just minutes earlier after Grant allegedly warned her with a text message that read, ‘The lions are inside. One of them is very watchful, like a bird watches a stone.’
Lewthwaite, who remains the world’s most wanted person by the Authorities, is suspected of orchestrating several terror attacks in Africa that have killed more than 400 people.
The attacks include the deadly 2013 shopping mall attack at the Westgate in Nairobi that killed more than 60 civilians and several soldiers.
