A court in the coastal city of Mombasa has sentenced a British national, who authorities say is an extremist who plotted attacks against the country, to nine years in prison for attempting to illegally acquire Kenyan identification documents.
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Grant is still on trial for terrorism offences following his arrest in 2011 but on Wednesday High Court Judge Martin Muya in Mombasa found Grant guilty of nine charges relating to forged documents.
This comes just a day after the High Court overturned a ruling by a lower court that had acquitted the accused of nine charges for lack of evidence on January 28.
Grant who is associated with Samantha Lewthwhite Alias White widow the mastermind of The Westgate Mall terror attacks also faces other charges of being in possession of explosives. Grant denies the charges.
Reid, who claimed he was an Al-Qaeda recruit, is serving a life sentence in the United States for trying to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001.
Jermaine Grant, originally from London, was arrested on a bus in Kenya in December 2011 as he tried to cross into Somalia while using a burqa to disguise himself as a woman.
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The Islamist group was once popular with foreign fighters but it has not been so successful in recruitment in recent years because of the rise of IS in Syria and Iraq.
