Fugitive Cleckheaton woman Kerry Page - who failed to appear at her trial in Kenya - has returned to Britain, her lawyer claimed today.

A warrant was issued for the 29-year-old's arrest in May last year after she disappeared from Kenya, where she faced charges of stealing and receiving property stolen from the UN worth $333,000 (£200,000).

Since then, her whereabouts have remained a mystery.

But, speaking from Nairobi today, her attorney Ishan Kapila told the Telegraph & Argus: "I understand that Kerry is back in England and has given herself up to the authorities.

"I don't know where she is, but I am expecting to be contacted by her lawyers in England."

Miss Page's grandparents Geoff and Dorothy Greenhough, of Holdsworth Street, Cleckheaton, have been involved in the family campaign to support her. Mrs Greenhough admitted she had seen her granddaughter and says she is well,

The Greenhoughs collected more than 4,000 names for a 7,000-signature petition which was handed in to the Foreign Office demanding they put pressure on the Kenyan authorities to release Miss Page's passport to allow her to return home, or to her job in Dubai. The petition was started by Miss Page's mum Elaine Garnham who asked Batley and Spen MP Mike Wood to present it, but an application for the return of her passport was later turned down.

Mrs Garnham, 46, of Scholes, Cleckheaton, said she could not comment.

According to the charges, goods belonging to the UN peacekeeping operation in Somalia were stolen at the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa after being shipped there from Somalia.

Miss Page was charged with Kenyan national Mohammed Ali Malizon.

If convicted, she faces up to 25 years in jail.

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