Samples found in suspect’s house deadly- report

By Willis Oketch

A report by a counterterrorism expert from Scotland Yard shows that samples or implements found British terror suspect Jermaine Grant’s house in Kisauni, Mombasa could be used to assemble deadly explosives and bomb devices.

The report notes that many of these implements are industrially manufactured and legally held in homes and include beauty products and fertiliser but constitute ingredients that can be transformed into deadly matter by a trained and criminal mind.

The author of the report is Scotland Yard Counterterrorism Expert Lorna Kirstin Philp and was basis of her recent testimony to a closed session trial of the British suspect who is facing terror charges alongside his wife Warda Breik, fugitive Fuad Abubakar Manswab and a fourth suspect Lorna  told Justice Maureen Odero that after analysis of the chemicals that were recovered from Grant’s house she concluded that Grant had criminal mind.

She also said although the chemicals and products are legally sold on the open market the range and number of those in Grant’s house can only be found with people who want to misuse for criminal purposes.

“Yes, we have such people in the UK who use such chemicals for criminal purposes and that is why it was unusual to find them in the house of Grant,” said Lorna.

The witness, however, said she never came across anything to show that Grant had made a bomb but insisted some chemicals such as acetone, hydrogen peroxide and lead nitrate found in Grant’s house are ingredients if mixed chemically can produce a highly explosive device.