Linked to terrorist cell, escapes
Radicalized Briton Jermaine Grant is arrested in Mombasa on charges of possessing bomb-making materials in connection with a planned attack on tourists over Christmas 2011. Grant rents a expensive house near a string of luxury hotels, and Lewthwait lives there. Police question but don’t arrest her, believing her to be an innocent tourist. She then disappears, possibly fleeing to Somalia.