News Source: Times Online
| 21 days ago
His bungling of the “Wonga coup” proved one adventure too far. A former SAS commander, who served in Northern Ireland and the Gulf War, he was active during the Angolan civil war in the 1990s. An occasional actor, Mann also played a British...
News Source: Times Online
| 21 days ago
The former SAS officer was released yesterday by Teodoro Obiang Nguema, President of the corrupt but fabulously rich oil state of Equatorial Guinea, after Mann had served only 15 months of a 34-year jail sentence for conspiring to overthrow him. He...
News Source: The Guardian
| 21 days ago
He has now been freed by the president after serving five and a half years in Black Beach prison. Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP The British mercenary Simon Mann is due to arrive back in Britain tomorrow after being granted a presidential pardon...
News Source: The Guardian
| 21 days ago
It is safe to say that the breathtaking view from this most desirable and expensive of spots is a world away from the one seen from behind the bars of Equatorial Guinea 's infamous Black Beach prison. The connection between these two extremes of...
News Source: Times Online
| 21 days ago
Call it a deal, an understanding, a nod or a wink, but however you put it the release of Mann and his accomplices suits a number of interested parties very nicely. In 2005 62 black South African mercenaries finished their sentences — served in...
News Source: News 24
| 21 days ago
South Africa on Tuesday was moving to bring home four citizens freed by Equatorial Guinea for a failed coup, as President Jacob Zuma prepared to visit the West African state. The four South Africans were released into the custody of the country's...