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The computer led officers to an upmarket Nairobi villa where Lewthwaite lived, and where neighbours said she dressed in Western clothes, rather than the Muslim hijab often associated with her.

The hard drive also contained a cache of pictures showing her wearing vest tops with her auburn hair hanging loose, and which betray a warped obsession with her own image.

Bizarre: In one of the shots the ‘White Widow’ has been superimposed to appear on a screen in Times Square

One photograph features her face digitally superimposed on a billboard in New York’s Times Square.

Warrant: Following the finding of the laptop Interpol has issued a worldwide arrest warrant for the fugitive

Another has her face reproduced many times over in bubbles. In other shots, Lewthwaite – who grew up  in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire –  is seen for the first time with her youngest child, born last summer.

Altered: One of the pictures had been digitally altered to show a number of shots of her in bubbles across the photograph

It means that she now has four children – two with Lindsay and  two with her new partner, said to be a Somali.

 Before the Terror: Samantha Lewthwaite pictured during her days as a schoolgirl in Buckinghamshire

In the aftermath of the London bombings Lewthwaite was given police protection. But within a year she had disappeared from Aylesbury and police now believe she met up with her husband’s former terrorist associates in Kenya and Somalia.

Information retrieved from the laptop reveals that by March 2011 she had moved into a smart gated  estate in Nairobi, paying a monthly rent of about £600.

There she maintained the appearance of an ordinary housewife, using a false South African passport and passing herself off as Natalie Faye Webb.

A woman who lived next door, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘We knew this white lady as an ordinary housewife, at home most of the time with her small children.

‘She had a new baby and there was always a lot of noise, as if she had ten children in there. We thought she might be running some sort of nursery. We never saw her wearing a hijab or any Muslim robes. She used to wear T-shirts and jeans and always had her hair down to her shoulders with no scarf or veil.’

It is believed that at this time Lewthwaite may have been lying low, waiting for the right moment to join her terrorist co-conspirators.

Authorities believe that she was acting as paymaster for Somali terror group Al Shabaab’s operations in Kenya. The group has been closely linked with Al Qaeda.

In September last year she left the Nairobi house to move to Mombasa, allegedly to complete preparations for a bombing campaign against tourist locations.

The laptop was discovered in December at a house in Mombasa where she had been staying.

Lewthwaite came to the attention of Kenyan police following the arrest of fellow Briton Jermaine Grant, 29, in Mombasa, where bomb-making equipment was found in a flat for which she had paid the rent in cash. 

A picture quickly emerged of  a woman ‘intending to cause harm  to innocent civilians’ by means of ‘an explosive device’, according to Kenyan charges against her.

By then, however, Lewthwaite  had disappeared, leading many to believe that

she has somehow been smuggled into Somalia.

Police officers in Nairobi are investigating the possibility that Samantha Lewthwaite, left, who was married to Jermaine Lindsay, right, the suicide bomber who blew up a Tube train at King’s Cross in 2005, may have been part of a terrorist cell

Death squad: Shehzad Tanweeer, Jermaine Lindsay and Mohammad Sidique Khan with their rucksacks at Luton railway station on a dry run of a terror attack

Dedicated to Terror: Suspect Samantha Lewthwaite, pictured with a man who is thought to be fellow Briton Habib Ghani