Simon Mann, left, and fellow prisoners leave a court set up in prison in Harare following their arrest in Zimbabwe in 2003 - AFP/STR Simon Mann, who has died aged 72, was an Old Etonian, former SAS ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - British mercenary Simon Mann may be one of the luckiest foiled coup plotters in history. The soldier of fortune expected to spend the rest of his days rotting in a tropical ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea has pardoned British mercenary Simon Mann for his role in a failed 2004 coup plot, allowing him to seek medical treatment after serving just over one year of a ...

LONDON/MALABO (Reuters) - Freed British mercenary Simon Mann said his homecoming was the "most wonderful" he could have imagined, after earlier expressing relief that his West African coup attempt had ...

MALABO, July 7 (Reuters) - British mercenary Simon Mann was jailed for 34 years by a court in Equatorial Guinea on Monday for a failed 2004 coup plot in which he said former British Prime Minister ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Simon Mann, a British mercenary jailed for plotting against the government of Equatorial Guinea, has said South Africa tacitly supported a failed 2004 coup in the oil-rich African ...

(Adds details, background) MALABO, June 17 (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea's state prosecutor asked a court on Tuesday to sentence British mercenary Simon Mann to nearly 32 years in prison for his role ...

* British police say still investigating coup plot * Mann says "relieved" coup plot failed, thanks Obiang (Recasts with return to Britain, adds quotes, police comment) LONDON/MALABO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - ...