A BRITISH terror suspect has been deported to the UK after completing a lengthy prison sentence in Kenya.
Jermaine Grant, 41, was arrested in London on Thursday after arriving on a flight from Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
He was jailed in 2011 after bomb-making equipment was discovered in his flat in Mombasa, a Kenyan coastal city.
Grant is thought to have shared the flat with Samantha Lewthwaite, who is dubbed the “White Widow” and is wanted in connection with London’s 7/7 bombings.
After he was arrested in 2011, Kenyan police accused Grant of plotting to bomb tourist hotels on the country’s coast.
In 2019, a court acquitted him of conspiracy over the alleged plot, but convicted him of possessing bomb-making materials.
On Friday, the UK’s Metropolitan Police confirmed that Grant had been detained in London under the Terrorism Act.
In a statement, the force said: “We can confirm that on 8 August, officers from the Met Police arrested [a] 41-year-old man who was wanted on recall to prison in relation to breaching licence conditions linked to a previous conviction.
“He was arrested at Heathrow airport as he arrived back into the UK on a flight from Kenya. The man’s licence conditions were revoked in August 2005 following the initial breach.”
Grant was also arrested on suspicion of being a member of al-Shabab, an Islamist militant group, the Met Police said.
He remains in police custody.
