**Kenya has attempted to deport controversial Jamaican Muslim preacher Abdullah al-Faisal for a second time in two weeks, a court has been told.**The government was ordered to produce Faisal, but state counsel Edwin Okello said: “The subject is no longer within the court’s jurisdiction.”
Mr Okello said the cleric, convicted in the UK for soliciting murder of Jews and Hindus, was heading for Jamaica.
Kenya tried to expel him earlier this month, but he was sent back days later.
He was in Nigeria and was due to fly to The Gambia, but airlines refused to allow him on board.
The government says Faisal is being deported because of his “terrorist history”.
Bomber connection
The BBC’s Ruth Nesoba, at the Nairobi court, says security was tight at the hearing and the public was barred.
Faisal’s exact whereabouts was not immediately clear.
Some reports said he had already left the country on a charter flight.
But Al-Amin Kimathi, leader of the Kenya Muslim Rights Forum, told the BBC the preacher was still at Nairobi airport.
Faisal was deported from the UK in 2007 after spending four years in jail.
The British government said one of the 7 July London suicide bombers, Germaine Lindsay, was heavily influenced by the cleric.
Shoe-bomber Richard Reid is said to have visited mosques where he preached in the UK.
Faisal has been in custody in Nairobi since his return from Nigeria.
Muslim groups launched a protest against his detention last Friday, which turned violent.
Hundreds of people were arrested and seven people have been charged over the riots - including Mr Kimathi.