Judith Tebbutt News Today

By Mike Pflanz in Lamu, Kenya

Kololo was arrested after being accused of aiding attackers at a tourist resort in Lamu.

David Tebbutt’s widow ‘delighted’ as court rules conviction of Ali Kololo for robbery with violence was unsafe

Prosecution says the suspect’s conviction was based on hearsay evidence.

The attacks of Somali pirates become bolder and more frequent. They got world wide attention after hijacking a super-tanker. Now they even attack ships bound for the Somali capital Mogadishu, which had been largely spared in the past.

Judith Tebbutt, 67, and her husband David were abducted by armed Somali pirates from a beach resort in Kenya in 2011.

Mr Ali Kololo was also sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for the offence of kidnapping in order to murder

Freed 10 years ago after seven months held hostage, Tebbutt watched homecoming of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with joy and trepidation

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Who would want to be an American or British citizen when dealing with a hostile foreign government or terrorist group? Photographs of a disheveled Richard Ratcliffe, who has just finished a three-week hunger strike outside the U.K.

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