Kenya acquits Briton over robbery, still faces attack trial

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Friday acquitted British citizen Jermaine John Grant of robbery with violence over an incident in 2008, a charge that could have carried the death penalty, but he faces another trial over a planned attack in Kenya in December.

Kenyan police suspect Grant, an east Londoner, has ties to the al Shabaab rebel group blamed by the authorities for a string of attacks in the port city of Mombasa, Nairobi and in the remote hinterlands bordering Somalia.