THE world's most wanted woman used fake documents suggesting she was working for an Irish charity as she tried to enter Kenya, according to reports.
White Widow terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite is believed to have slipped past Kenyan border control officials while carrying Italian identity documents using the name Maria Mira Martinez.
She is also believed to have claimed that she was working for the charity Friends of Africa, which is based in Newry, Co Down.
The Irish Post contacted the charity who said they knew nothing about the story. They would comment only to say that no one by the name Maria Mira Martinez was connected with the charity.
Ms Lewthwaite – who was born in Banbridge, Co Down – is accused of links to Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, which has attacked Kenya several times. Her husband, Germaine Lindsay, died in the 2005 London bombings suicide attack.
He was one of the four bombers who carried out July 7 attack on three transport routes in which 52 people were killed and hundreds more injured.
Kenyan police officers in the coastal town of Lamu provided an armed escort to a white woman who disappeared after her attempts to enter Somalia were blocked by immigration officials.
The BBC has reported that it has reliable information that Ms Lewthwaite is in Kenya and a massive operation to find her has been launched.
Following last year's attack on the Nairobi shopping centre, Kenya sought an international warrant for her arrest. An Interpol statement said she was "wanted by Kenya on charges of being in possession of explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony dating back to December 2011".
Last month it was reported that the Ms Lewthwaite had got married to ruthless terror chief, Islamic warlord Hassan Maalim Ibrahim, also known as Sheikh Hassan, while on the run in Somalia.
Born in Northern Ireland, Samantha Lewthwaite is the daughter of English soldier Andy Lewthwaite, who met and married Catholic Christine Allen while serving here in the 1970s.
She spent her childhood in Banbridge, Co Down, before moving to Aylesbury in England at a young age.
After converting to Islam at 17, Lewthwaite changed her name to Sherafiyah and married Germaine Lindsay, with the couple having three children together.
Lindsay went on to detonate the bomb at King's Cross Tube station, killing 26 people in July 2005.
