Briton Gets 7 Years in Case Linked to Coup Plot
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From Times Wire Reports
A Zimbabwe court jailed British former special services officer Simon Mann for seven years in a case prosecutors had linked to a foiled coup plot in Equatorial Guinea. The court also jailed 65 suspected mercenaries, all South African citizens, for 12 months on related charges.
Mann, 51, had pleaded guilty to trying to buy weapons from Zimbabwe’s state arms manufacturer, but he insisted that they were to be used for guarding mining operations in Congo.
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