Coup plot conviction increases the pressure on Mark Thatcher

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State prosecutors in Equatorial Guinea have demanded the firing squad for Du Toit. They have also asked for the extradition of Mann and Mark Thatcher, the son of the former prime minister Baroness Thatcher, to stand trial in Malabo, the Equatorial Guinea capital.

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David Hart is a former Old Etonian millionaire adviser to Margaret Thatcher and was her chief enforcer during the 1984 miners' strike. He is known to have excellent access to the US government and worked closely with CIA boss Bill Casey in the early and mid-1980s. More recently he has worked as a middle man for a number of defence contractors.

The letter went on: "It may be that getting us out comes down to a large splodge of wonga! Of course, investors did not think this would happen. Did I? Do they think they can be part of something like this with only upside potential, no hardship or risk of this going wrong? Anyone and everyone in this is in it - good times or bad."

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Ironically, another of Mark Thatcher’s close neighbours is the son of the man he is alleged to have tried to help overthrow. Teodorín Nguema Obiang, Nguema’s son by his first wife, Constancia Okomo, bought his two £2 million Cape mansions a few months ago, apparently with oil money laundered by his father through Riggs Bank in Washington. Teodorín is a ruthless killer tipped as the favourite to succeed his father, who is suffering from prostate cancer. He is much feared and reviled but exercises power through his music station, Radio Asonga.

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