Briton is acquitted over attack in Morocco

A Briton detained in connection with the suicide bomb attacks in Casablanca was acquitted yesterday by a court in Morocco.

Anthony Perry Jensen, 37, from London, was charged for alleged connection with a militant Islamic network linked to the terrorist explosions which killed 44 people in May.

He was acquitted of the charge after a judge at a court in Fez ruled that there was insufficient evidence to link him to the bombings.

However, during the same hearing, he was jailed for four months for adultery, charged with "debauchery and offence at good values".

The charges related to his marriage to a 17-year-old Moroccan girl, believed to be four-months pregnant, despite having a wife and two children in Britain, according to court officials.

Jensen, who converted to Islam more than 10 years ago and is based in Rabat, was given eight days to appeal against the verdict.

He was one of two British men detained in June for alleged links with the Salafist Jihad, a clandestine Islamic network implicated in the 16 May bombings which has links with the al-Qa'ida network.

The second Briton, Abdelatif Merroun, 42, is believed to be married to a Briton and is based in the city of Tangiers, in north Morocco.

He will appear in court in Rabat in the next few weeks, Moroccan officials said.