The world’s most wanted woman, British ‘White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite, is feared to be fighting with jihadists in Yemen.
The 37-year-old terrorist, who was married to one of the 7/7 suicide bombers and is accused of causing the deaths of 400 people, is believed to have travelled 200 miles from Africa to the Middle East in 2018.
She fled the UK for South Africa in 2009, later crossing into Tanzania in 2011 and then Kenya. Investigators later tracked her to Somalia, where she sheltered with al-Shabaab militants, before travelling around 200 miles across the Gulf of Aden to war-torn Yemen three years ago.
Though no intelligence on British mother Lewthwaite’s exact location has been received for months, security sources now believe that she is caught up in the deadly chaos of Yemen’s long-running civil war between government forces and Islamists.
‘But trying to get intelligence there is as tough as in Syria when the IS regime was at its height. There’s virtually no Western presence in Yemen because it’s so dangerous. And in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it’s assumed she’s alive and being supported by extremists.’
Lewthwaite, originally of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was the wife of 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay and is thought to be behind scores of suicide attacks across Africa and the Middle East. 
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The 37-year-old terrorist fled the UK for South Africa in 2009, later crossing into Tanzania in 2011 and then Kenya. Investigators later tracked her to Somalia, where she sheltered with al-Shabaab militants, before travelling around 200 miles across the Gulf of Aden to war-torn Yemen three years ago
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Samantha Lewthwaite, the British fugitive widow of 7/7 bomber Lindsay
