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11/24/2004:

"I'm a dead man: Mark Thatcher bemoans fate"

SIR MARK THATCHER has told how his business career has been left in ruins and his life "destroyed" by charges that he helped to bankroll a failed African coup.

Breaking his silence on his alleged role in the bungled mercenary plot, the son of Baroness Thatcher, the former Prime Minister, said he feels like "a corpse floating in the river" as he faces up to his accusers.

Friends say that Sir Mark is beginning to show the strain of facing a 12-year jail sentence in South Africa or, worse, extradition to Equatorial Guinea, and its brutal prison regime.

Full Article : timesonline.co.uk