Simon Mann

...Newsnight, showed four others would receive $1m each, and six more $50,000 each. Speeches and tears as mercenary Simon Mann is released from prison This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 21.37 GMT on Tuesday 3 November 2009. A...

In this article: Mark Thatcher, Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang, and Eli Calil

...implicated Sir Mark Thatcher and Mr Calil. In a documentary - to be screened by BBC Four's Storyville series - Mann reveals he wrote to President Obiang before his trial asking for a pardon. He said: 'I think I would have earned a pardon...

In this article: Mark Thatcher, Ely Calil, Britain, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and Equatorial Guinea

...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in the coup. Equatorial Guinea analyst Antony Goldman told the BBC that friends of Mann had been hinting of his possible release for several weeks. His extradition came after he had served four years...

In this article: Equatorial Guinea, Mark Thatcher, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, British Army, and Scots Guards

...he regretted his involvement in the coup plot. "I regret what happened in 2004. It was wrong and I'm happy that we did not succeed," Mann told the BBC. He underwent hernia surgery last year and his state of health was one of the reasons...

In this article: Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Mark Thatcher, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Britain, Surgery, and Eton

...the legal provisions of Equatorial Guinea." Oil-rich Sources close to Mann have told the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner that his release came as a huge shock to him. They say talks have been going on for a year, but Mann...

In this article: Mark Thatcher, Equatorial Guinea, Ely Calil, Jacob Zuma, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, UK, South Africa, and Frank Gardner