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08/28/2004:

"SAS Brit Guilty Of Africa Plot"

A CLOSE pal of Mark Thatcher was yesterday convicted over a plot to topple the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.

Simon Mann was found guilty as Margaret Thatcher cut short her holiday in the US to fly home for briefings on her son's crisis.

Mann, the ringleader of the plot, was convicted in Zimbabwe of trying to buy weapons and faces 10 years in jail.

The verdict came as Equatorial Guinea - which still has the death penalty - asked for Mark Thatcher to be extradited from South Africa to face charges linked to the plot.

Full Article : dailyrecord.co.uk