White Widow Lewthwaite splits from husband No4
EXCLUSIVE
IRISH terrorist Samantha Lewthwaite has split from her fourth husband, according to Somali security sources.
The mum of four is said to have fled to a mountain hideaway following her break-up with a ruthless warlord in Somalia after seven years of marriage.
Nicknamed the White Widow, she is wanted for a series of terror attacks across Africa and is believed responsible for 400 deaths.
Lewthwaite is the daughter of a British soldier and was raised in Banbridge, Co Down.
Her first husband was a 7/7 London Tube bomber. She is thought to have escaped to war-torn Yemen in a boat after the split from Hassan Maalim Ibrahim put her in danger.
DISGUISES
Lewthwaite, of Aylesbury, Bucks, disguises her blue eyes and wears a full niqab veil and gloves to hide her skin.
A security source said: “She 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.”
Muslim convert Lewthwaite, 37, had two children with 2005 London suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay.
She branded the July attacks that killed 52 people “abhorrent” but later fled the UK with her children, surfacing in Africa in 2009.
She was put on Interpol’s red list after a 2013 shopping centre attack in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed 67 shoppers.
However, she escaped to Somalia and became a key figure in extreme Islamic group al-shabaab.
Security services believe other atrocities linked to Lewthwaite include a Mombasa bar attack which killed three and the slaughter of 148 people by gunmen in Kenya in 2015.