Itemoids

You are not logged in so some information on this page has been withheld. To see more, please log in or sign up.

Simon Mann

since

auto-detected in 6 stories

5 months ago

On Thursday, the extraordinary life of Simon Mann - SAS officer, mercenary, adventurer, brewing heir and bon viveur - will be celebrated in a central London chapel.

9 months ago

The death of ex-SAS officer Simon Mann at 72, reportedly while on a rowing machine, is not the first to be linked to exercise and gym machines.
It was March 2008 and I had flown from London to interview Britain's most famous soldier of fortune - who died suddenly aged 72 on Friday - in Africa's most infamous jail, Black Beach.
As news of his sudden demise, aged 72, swept through London 's military clubland yesterday, some of his old comrades could not help wondering whether his death with his past catching up with him.
He was arrested in 2004 after being part of a failed coup to overthrow Equatorial Guinea's ruler.
Old Etonian Simon Mann, who served in the Scots Guards after Sandhurst, was one of a group of 70 mercenaries arrested in Zimbabwe for attempting to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in 2004.

page 1 of 1