The grandparents of Kerry Page - who could face up to 25 years in a Kenyan jail - have joined the family's fight to secure her freedom.

Geoff and Dorothy Greenhough, of Holdsworth Street, Cleckheaton, are collecting signatures for a petition which will go to the Foreign Office. It urges the Government to put pressure on the Kenyan authorities to return Kerry's passport.

They have been at the Tesco store in Cleckheaton every day since Saturday asking shoppers to sign the petition which has been launched by Kerry's mother, Elaine Garnham.

Retired mill worker Mr Greenhough said: "We've collected more than 300 names so far. Most people are very sympathetic and say they remember seeing Kerry's photograph in the Telegraph & Argus. Only about four people refused to sign."

Kerry, 29, who is recovering from malaria, is currently on bail in Nairobi awaiting trial on May 18 on charges of theft and handling stolen United Nations goods - forklift trucks, vehicles and containers - worth £200,000. She has strongly denied the charges.

The UN is alleging she helped an Australian catering company she worked for as a buyer steal the items after the refugee crisis in Somalia three years ago. The firm, Morris Catering, supplied aid to UN relief workers.

Kerry's passport was confiscated as part of the bail conditions but her family, of Old Popplewell Lane, Scholes, Cleckheaton, say it should be given back so she can return home or to her job as a shipping manager in Dubai until the trial.

She has already been told by her lawyers it could take up to seven years for her case to be resolved. And charges against two others implicated in the case have been dropped, leaving Kerry and her Kenyan driver to face prosecution alone.

Mrs Garnham said: "Kerry is very depressed because she can't work or come home and is stuck in her flat with nothing to do all day.

"If she had her passport she could at least have a semi-normal life between the hearings in Kenya."

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