A BRITISH terror suspect known as the 'White Widow' suffered a slow and agonising death after reportedly being shot by a sniper in east Ukraine, it was alleged today.
By: Will Stewart
British authorities are urgently trying to verify the shock claims that Samantha Lewthwaite, 30, was gunned down by pro-Russian rebel forces, as reported by Regnum news agency in Moscow.
One of Britain's most wanted people, the 30-year-old was reported last month as fighting for the so-called Islamic State terror group in Syria.
Lewthwaite was married to 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay, 19, a Jamaican-born Yorkshireman, and allegedly left Britain in 2009 before being linked to atrocities in Africa.
The journalist behind the story, Alexey Toporov, a supporter of the separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine, today claimed: "It is said that her death was not quick - which was the right way to do it."
His words implied that the jihadist suffered a lingering death after being shot by "a young but already experienced sniper volunteer
from Russia".
The journalist, Regnum News Agency and rebels forces in Ukraine have failed so far to provide any evidence for Lewthwaite's presence in the eastern European country, or of her death.
No pictures have been released of her body, nor any personal papers indicating she was in Ukraine.
Nor is it clear how the rebels knew her identity.
Toporov claimed today on a social media site that Lewthwaite had come to Ukraine under a false name and was deployed as a sniper in the Donetsk region.
"The White Widow ended in a bad way. To be more exact, she ended up killing people," he added.
"This viper, who organised the attack on a shopping centre in Nairobi where people including women and children were shot dead because they could not tell the name of Muhammad's first wife, was using false name and fighting in Donbass.
"She was a sniper in one of the [Ukrainian] punishment battalions, supposedly Aidar. She killed many of our guys.
"At the end, she was shot by a young but already very experienced sniper volunteer from Russia.
"He did not even care for the $5million [£3.2million] promised by Interpol for the head of this viper."
Toporov is a former editor from Kazan, capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, and was previously involved in a street fight with an alleged extremist Tatar figure.
This year he served as press officer for the self-styled Lugansk People's Republic in rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
He quit and went back to Russia, but has now returned to Lugansk as a journalist.
Once seen as a innocent home counties wife, Lewthwaite has since become one of the most notorious fugitives on the planet.
For the last three years British, American and Kenyan security services have been chasing her, with some reports suggesting she may have employed plastic surgery to evade capture.
Born in Northern Ireland and schooled in Aylesbury, she was not previously linked to Ukraine.
British authorities are urgently trying to verify the shock claims that Samantha Lewthwaite, 30, was gunned down by pro-Russian rebel forces, as reported by Regnum news agency in Moscow.
One of Britain's most wanted people, the 30-year-old was reported last month as fighting for the so-called Islamic State terror group in Syria.
Lewthwaite was married to 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay, 19, a Jamaican-born Yorkshireman, and allegedly left Britain in 2009 before being linked to atrocities in Africa.
The journalist behind the story, Alexey Toporov, a supporter of the separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine, today claimed: "It is said that her death was not quick - which was the right way to do it."
His words implied that the jihadist suffered a lingering death after being shot by "a young but already experienced sniper volunteer
from Russia".
The journalist, Regnum News Agency and rebels forces in Ukraine have failed so far to provide any evidence for Lewthwaite's presence in the eastern European country, or of her death.
No pictures have been released of her body, nor any personal papers indicating she was in Ukraine.
Nor is it clear how the rebels knew her identity.
Toporov claimed today on a social media site that Lewthwaite had come to Ukraine under a false name and was deployed as a sniper in the Donetsk region.
"The White Widow ended in a bad way. To be more exact, she ended up killing people," he added.
"This viper, who organised the attack on a shopping centre in Nairobi where people including women and children were shot dead because they could not tell the name of Muhammad's first wife, was using false name and fighting in Donbass.
"She was a sniper in one of the [Ukrainian] punishment battalions, supposedly Aidar. She killed many of our guys.
"At the end, she was shot by a young but already very experienced sniper volunteer from Russia.
"He did not even care for the $5million [£3.2million] promised by Interpol for the head of this viper."
Toporov is a former editor from Kazan, capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, and was previously involved in a street fight with an alleged extremist Tatar figure.
This year he served as press officer for the self-styled Lugansk People's Republic in rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
He quit and went back to Russia, but has now returned to Lugansk as a journalist.
Once seen as a innocent home counties wife, Lewthwaite has since become one of the most notorious fugitives on the planet.
For the last three years British, American and Kenyan security services have been chasing her, with some reports suggesting she may have employed plastic surgery to evade capture.
Born in Northern Ireland and schooled in Aylesbury, she was not previously linked to Ukraine.
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