The High Court in Mombasa on Wednesday sentenced a British terror suspect to nine years in jail.
High Court Judge Martin Muya set aside an earlier decision by a magistrate’s court that had acquitted Jermaine Grant.
The Director of Public Prosecutions had filed an application before the High Court on Tuesday appealing the decision by Shanzu Magistrate Anastasia Ndung’u to acquit Grant of the charges he was facing.
Grant was facing nine counts of attempting to illegally acquire Kenyan identification documents.
He was accused of attempting to register for a Kenyan birth certificate by making a false statement. The accused was also facing three counts of procuring the execution of a document by false pretense and attempting to produce registration on different dates in 2011.
Judge Muya in his ruling said the magistrate failed to take into consideration the fact that the accused was an accomplice in the forgery of a birth certificate.
Judge Muya sentenced Grant to one-year imprisonment on each of the nine charges. He, however, said the accused has a right to appeal the sentence.
The judge granted the accused’s application filed through his lawyer Chacha Mwita to be supplied with certified copies of the proceedings and judgment to appeal the ruling.