Kenyan court jails father and son for life, for hosting 1998 US embassy attack planner
The two, Mahfudh Ashur and Ibrahim Mahfudh, were found guilty of hosting Fazul Mohammed, who planned the 1998 attack which killed 219 people, and another attack in Kikambala which killed 17 people.
Local The Star newspaper says the court ruled that the case against the two –which began in 2008 – was proven beyond doubt.
Chief magistrate Maxwell Gicheru said evidence collected from Mahfudh’s home proved that Fazul has lived in the place.
He said DNA tests conducted on sampled collected from the items recovered from Mahfudh’s home matched those of the terrorist.
“The DNA samples marched samples from Fazul’s children, Luqman and Sumaiya. It proved the samples on the shaver matched the biological father of the two children. This then confirms Fazul lived in that house,” The Star quotes Gicheru in his ruling.
The magistrate also pointed out that evidence brought to the court proved that the two had full knowledge of Fazul’s terror activities at the time they hosted him.
Fazul was shot dead in Somalia in mid-2011 when he and an associate refused to stop at a checkpoint near the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
