One of the world’s most wanted people who is from Aylesbury has reportedly fled to Yemen, after splitting up from her fourth husband.
Samantha Lewthwaite, who is originally from Northern Ireland but grew up in Buckinghamshire, is said to have left Somalia according to security services, who are still trying to find the so-called ‘White Widow.’
The 38-year-old is accused of causing the deaths of more than 400 hundred people through a string of terror attacks in Africa.
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WANTED: #SamanthaLewthwaite (36) one of the Western world's most wanted #terrorism suspects. First entered SA in 2008 living in Mayfair and Randburg. Whereabouts currently unknown.https://t.co/oeCR169FXc pic.twitter.com/IUMD2JwBqg
— SAcrimefighters. 🇿🇦 (@SAcrimefighters) August 9, 2020
She also was married to Germaine Lindsay, one of the suicide bombers that caused devastation in London on July 7, 2005, with the two living in a house on Northern Road in Aylesbury.
However, four years after the terror attack, she left the UK for South Africa, before crossing over to Tanzania in 2011 and then Kenya, before investigators tracked her to an Al-Shabaab stronghold in Somalia.
According to the Mirror, Lewthwaite has spent the last seven years with her fourth husband, a Somalian warlord who allegedly is known as Sheikh Hussan.
Security sources say Lewthwaite, who was the daughter of a British solider during Northern Ireland's Troubles, is understood to have fled from a 'no-go' area in Somalia after their breakup.
MOST WANTED Who is the ‘White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite and where is she now? https://t.co/S3fUTFM6ws via @Somaliweyn pic.twitter.com/eVLEYwzYnX
— Somaliweyn.com (@Somaliweyn1) August 7, 2020
She is now believed to reside in a jihadi-sympathising stronghold in neighbouring Yemen, where she wears a full niqab and gloves to conceal her identity.
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One security source told the Mirror: “[Lewthwaite] and Sheikh Hassan are no longer together – it is thought they are divorced. She had protection from his family in a no-go area in Somalia.
“But now she is not welcome and has gone back to al-Qaeda-controlled Yemen. She got there in a dhow sailing vessel.”
Interpol issued a Red Notice warrant for her arrest after she was linked to the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Kenya, which left five Britons and 66 other people dead and injured around 200 others.
Security services also believe her other atrocities include the slaughter of 148 people by gunmen at a university in 2015.
In Yemen, she is understood to have recruited female suicide bombers with bribes of £3,000.
She is also thought to have sent male suicide bombers as young as 15, high on heroin, to their deaths.
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London University graduate Lewthwaite reportedly altered her appearance through plastic surgery and piled on weight in a bid to remain unrecognised.
She has pledged to raise all of her four children, who have three different fathers, as jihadists.
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As a teenager, she was seduced by the teachings of extremist cleric Trevor Forrest, or Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, through whom she met Lindsay, who killed himself and 26 others in 2005.
Click here to read her Interpol profile, as she remains at large.
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