The case against a Muslim cleric from Mombasa arrested on terror-related charges was postponed after police discovered an attempt to help the suspect break free.
The suspect's accusers and sympathizers are said to have laid in ambush along the Mombasa-Malindi road, awaiting the truck that was scheduled to transport the suspect to Mombasa High Court.
The vehicle had to go back to Shimo la Tewa Prison where the suspect had been before, after the officers received intelligence on the ambush, The Nation reports.
Senior prosecuting counsel Daniel Wamotsa told the court of the events that led to the failure of the suspect being presented in court.
He further requested that the court move's Ali's case to Shanzu Law Courts as they are withing the prison's premises.
Defence lawyer Jeff Asige, however, claimed that the prosecution was being dishonest and dismissed the ambush reports as inflammatory.
The suspect- Sheikh Khalid Mohamed Ali who was an imam at the Mango wa Papa Mosque at Mji wa Kale in Mombasa, was arrested after police officers allegedly found a hand grenade and plastic explosives in his house.
He has remained in custody after the Director of Public Prosecutions had filed an appeal opposing the release of the suspect on bond.
