Parole board says it's 'not safe to free' 7/7 bomber wife's 'ally'

A TERROR suspect linked to the fugitive White Widow has had his release from prison blocked.

- BY DAN WARBURTON

Jermaine Grant is accused of being an associate of Samantha Lewthwaite the wife of one of the 7/7 suicide bombers and a terror suspect herself.

He was said to have shared a flat with Lewthwaite in Mombasa, Kenya, where police found chemicals, switches and a bomb-making manual.

Muslim convert Grant, from Newham, East London, spent 13 years in a Kenyan jail for terror offences.

After serving his sentence, he was deported to the UK in August.

On arrival at Heathrow, he was arrested on suspicion of being a member of the proscribed Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, for which he remains under investigation.

Grant was recalled to prison for breaching his licence conditions. He was jailed for five years in 1999 for a rape in London and broke the conditions by travelling to Kenya after he was freed in 2003.