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The full extent of British involvement in securing the release of Michael
Adebolajo was disclosed for the first time, raising further questions about
how much MI5 knew about the alleged murderer.
It also emerged that Adebolajo benefited from the help of British diplomats
to avoid a formal deportation after his arrest in Kenya in 2010.
Contrary to previous reports, a Kenyan immigration source told The Daily
Telegraph Adebolajo was returned to Britain on an ordinary flight, and not
deported, after High Commission officials intervened.
A Kenyan lawyer who represented the 28 year-old suspected of hacking a
Drummer Lee Rigby to death in London last week said his client was freed
from arrest in the town of Lamu, Kenya, three years ago on the
recommendation of the British High Commission.
Wycliffe Makasembo said: "Our own intelligence in Kenya were reluctant to
release him, but it is the British High Commission which recommended that
the suspect be released.
"It is the British themselves who defended him from our law enforcers."
He added the British diplomatic mission replied in a letter to the police
that "gave a clean bill of health that Michael Adebolajo had no criminal
record or any connection with any criminal or terrorist organization in the
world".
Kenyan anti-terrorism police detained Adebolajo and five others when they
tried to travel north to Somalia in a speedboat.
They were suspected of attempting to go to train with the al Qaeda-linked
Islamist militant group al Shabaab in Somalia, and appeared in court in
Mombasa.
Adebolajo was returned to Britain and the other five, all Kenyans, were also
released without charge.
A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office declined to comment on
the lawyer's allegations.
"We can confirm that a British national was arrested in Kenya in 2010 and
the FCO provided consular assistance as normal for British nationals," the
spokesman said.
A Kenyan immigration source confirmed to The Daily Telegraph that Adebolajo
departed as a passenger on a Kenya Airways flight in November 2010 following
British High Commission intervention, and was not deported.
According to the same source, there is no evidence of other visits to the
country by Mr Adebolajo using his official travel documents.
The fiancee of Drummer Rigby said last night that she was "devastated" by
his loss and has been moved by all the tributes to a "great man".
In a short statement, Aimee West said: "I am devastated by the loss of Lee
who was a loving fiance.
"I am extremely proud of him and I am moved by all the flowers and tributes,
and that he has been remembered by the nation as the great man that he was."
• The Crown Prosecution Service tonight authorised the Metropolitan
Police to charge Michael Adebowale with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, as
well as possession of a firearm. |
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