Former SAS official Simon Mann leads a failed African “Queen Coup” involving Mark Thatcher’s death”

MailOnline can reveal that Simon Mann, a colorful mercenary and former SAS official, was sentenced to jail for leading the so-called Wonga coup of Sir Mark Thatcher 20 years ago.

Etonian Mann, who later served in the Scottish Guard, was one of 70 mercenaries arrested in Zimbabwe for attempting a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in 2004.

Businessman Sir Mark, the son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was later arrested in South Africa, and like Mann, admitted his coup attempt.

The multimillionaire and father of seven are believed to have passed away this week at the age of 72.

Born in a privileged life, Mann pursued an outstanding military career before the coup tangled.

His father, George, captain of England’s cricket in the 1940s, was the heir to Watney Mann’s brewing empire.

After Sandhurst, he served in the Scottish Guards and SAS in Cyprus, Germany, Norway and Northern Ireland, and volunteered as a reserve in the first Gulf War in 1991.

In 1996, Mann and former Scotsman Colonel Tim Spicer formed a mercenary or “private military company” Sandline in Angola, Sierra Leone.

Simon Mann (left) set up a courtroom in the highest security prison in Harare on March 23, 2003

When Mann and 69 other former soldiers were arrested in 2004 during the Harare Airport shutdown, his headlines were arrested for £100,000 in weapons and equipment designed to design a coup in Equatorial Guinea and to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang’s government.

Mann and other accomplices claimed they were just flying to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to provide security for the diamond mining industry, but after Harare’s trial he was awarded a seven-year trial for trying to buy weapons for an alleged coup, while 66 others were acquitted.

Meanwhile, Thatcher, nicknamed Scratcher, was arrested at his home in Cape Town and eventually pleaded guilty, “negligently providing financial assistance to the plot.”

The coup was funded by Lebanese fixed-member Eli Calil, whose former public school accomplice nicknamed “Smelly”, who later fell at his home in Holland Park in western London.

President Obiang promised that if he had the chance, he would eat Mann’s testicles and drag his naked body down the street.

In 2006, the coup! A TV movie written by actor and comedian John Fortune, made famous by Bremner, Bird and fortune, with Jared Harris as Mann and Robert Bathurst as Thatcher.

Simon Mann (front right) jointly considered with Equatorial Guinea in Malabo on July 7, 2008

Margaret Thatcher’s son, Mark Thatcher, left Cape Town Court on 18 February 2005

Then, in 2007, a Zimbabwe court ruled that Mann should be extradited to Equatorial Guinea after a dark agreement between the two governments in the name of “Mann’s oil.”

At the time Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe received a large amount of oil from Guinea, which was believed to be a reward for giving to Mann North to satisfy his fate.

Millionaire Mann was thrown into the hell hole of the infamous Black Beach prison, where he was applauded by hardcores in the legs and would be sentenced to less than two years of 34 years in prison, and despite his multiple malaria, he was in solitary confinement in a small cell.

Mann’s loyal wife Amanda returns home and fights others for her husband’s release, showing an unbearable spirit and obtains a T-shirt with a slogan: “A man is Christmas. Not life.”

In 2009, he was settled in the new forest by President Obiange (the man he tried to revoke and settled in the new forest with his wife Amanda, but the couple reportedly broke up.

Last year, Richard Eden, mailed, reported that Mann left Amanda, the mother of four of seven, who was running tirelessly for release, apparently comforted by a woman over his junior year.

Mail reported last year that Mann left Amanda, mother of four of seven children

A friend said: “Simon and Amanda broke up.

Mann’s next plan is reportedly to grow marijuana in northern Macedonia.

“They’re divorced,” Chom told me, saying that the marriage has been “very difficult” since Mann returned from Africa.

“They decided to be together until the youngest child left the house.”

Recently, Mann’s first marriage, Jack, was appointed Prince Harry’s “real best man”.

He planned to travel to Libya when he and his colleagues tried to fly from Malta.

The authorities decided that they needed to “correct” their paperwork, which was a five-day process.

Last year, the Daily Telegraph interviewed Mann, who claimed that Thatcher’s role in coup attempts was more than “negligent financiers.”

The plot was sown in August 2003, when Calil summoned Mann’s mansion in Chelsea, trying to overthrow the tyrannical Obeyang after approached by Severo Moto, the opposition leader exiled in Equareial Guinea.

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrived at his London office in November 2000

Mann claimed that Carrier told him that Spain’s King Juan Carlos was a former colony of Equatorial Guinea, when the Prime Minister of Spain’s José Maria Aznar knew about the coup and approved it.

As a reward, once Motorcycle comes to power, Mann will gain oil rights. Mann was also attracted by the dangers and adventures involved in the program and believed that removing authoritarian dictators would justify the ethics of the work. He told Calil that he would do it.

He calculated that bringing together a team of mercenaries with guns, rocket launchers and mortars would cost $2.5 million, but Calir’s funds were frozen due to a French criminal investigation.

Calil introduces Mann to a businessman who will be the silent partner in the program, but Mann wants his own man and approach Thatcher.

Sir Mark is an old friend. A close neighbor in Cape Town, both have homes. And, the Telegram reported, it was a SAS Groupie. While walking in Table Mountain, Mann briefed Sir Mark on the plot and asked if he would invest.

Mann told the Telegraph, “Mark is very enthusiastic.” “But he is not only eager to share the trophy of our adventures in Equatorial Guinea – he wants to [planning] operate.

Mann needed a helicopter for supply and rapid movement of the troops, while a trained helicopter pilot, Sir Mark Mark, had the connection and cash to purchase the aircraft needed.