Kenya police say trail gone cold in ‘White Widow’ hunt

Mombasa (Kenya) (AFP) - Kenyan detectives told a court Thursday they had lost the trail of terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite, known as the "White Widow", suggesting the fugitive may have taken another identity.

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14 August 2014

Detectives hunting Lewthwaite were ordered to appear in court Thursday in the port city Mombasa after failing to heed previous summons to provide updates on their search.

"We have tried to arrest her, but she keeps on changing her identity and location," said Abednego Kilonzo, a police chief inspector, said in a statement.

"She must have a new name from the previous ones," the statement added, read to the court by lawyer Eugene Wangila.

Lewthwaite is the subject of an Interpol "red notice" warrant for her detention, issued at Kenya