Sir Mark Thatcher
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KITT said:It means he doesn't actually go to jail, but if he does anything else that's naughty then he'll go to jail for whatever the punishment is for that (if any) plus the 4 years from the suspended sentence.
...and received a four-year suspended jail sentence.
Just a small point: Julie and I both fell off the sofa when we heard the SIR... bit on the telly last night* When the furglary did THAT happen? Just cos his mammy is a Bitchfromhelless, does that give him an automatic title? Or has he done some sterling work for the nation since he got lost on a rally some decades ago?
*I know, I know, the shame of it... I now have a telly in the house
*I know, I know, the shame of it... I now have a telly in the house
I guess that's Simon Mann's potential appeal fooked now. 7 odd years in a Zimbabwe shitpit...ouch.
Edit to add he's just got his sentence cut.
Plot leader's sentence halved
FromJan Raath in Harare
SIMON MANN, the person accused of leading the mercenary coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, has had his seven-year prison sentence cut by half on judicial review, his lawyer confirmed yesterday.
A business associate and Cape Town neighbour of Sir Mark Thatcher, Mann can now expect to be home by November next year. He was sentenced in September last year to four years in jail for plotting to buy military weapons and another three years for buying firearms without a licence.
On Tuesday in the High Court in Harare Judge Alfas Chitakunye cut the sentence, on review, to four years, Jonathan Samkange, Mann’s lawyer, said. The judge also revoked the trial magistrate’s order that the seven-year term begin from the date of his sentencing, by which time Mann and the 69 men arrested with him had already been in the Chikurubi maximum-security prison in Harare for six months.
“The judge said the sentence starts from incarceration,” Mr Samkange said. Mann would also be eligible for one third remission of his sentence for good behaviour.
Mann, an Old Etonian and former SAS officer, is also expected to appeal against his conviction and sentence.
>> Edited by Zorro on Friday 14th January 02:19
Edit to add he's just got his sentence cut.
Plot leader's sentence halved
FromJan Raath in Harare
SIMON MANN, the person accused of leading the mercenary coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, has had his seven-year prison sentence cut by half on judicial review, his lawyer confirmed yesterday.
A business associate and Cape Town neighbour of Sir Mark Thatcher, Mann can now expect to be home by November next year. He was sentenced in September last year to four years in jail for plotting to buy military weapons and another three years for buying firearms without a licence.
On Tuesday in the High Court in Harare Judge Alfas Chitakunye cut the sentence, on review, to four years, Jonathan Samkange, Mann’s lawyer, said. The judge also revoked the trial magistrate’s order that the seven-year term begin from the date of his sentencing, by which time Mann and the 69 men arrested with him had already been in the Chikurubi maximum-security prison in Harare for six months.
“The judge said the sentence starts from incarceration,” Mr Samkange said. Mann would also be eligible for one third remission of his sentence for good behaviour.
Mann, an Old Etonian and former SAS officer, is also expected to appeal against his conviction and sentence.
>> Edited by Zorro on Friday 14th January 02:19
wedg1e said:
Just a small point: Julie and I both fell off the sofa when we heard the SIR... bit on the telly last night* When the furglary did THAT happen? Just cos his mammy is a Bitchfromhelless, does that give him an automatic title? Or has he done some sterling work for the nation since he got lost on a rally some decades ago?
*I know, I know, the shame of it... I now have a telly in the house
Well he kept out of politics. Give him credit for that.
wedg1e said:
Just a small point: Julie and I both fell off the sofa when we heard the SIR... bit on the telly last night* When the furglary did THAT happen? Just cos his mammy is a Bitchfromhelless, does that give him an automatic title? Or has he done some sterling work for the nation since he got lost on a rally some decades ago?
*I know, I know, the shame of it... I now have a telly in the house
I believe it was the last hereditary knighthood ever bestowed on his father (he was a shit too) So there will be a long line of little Sirs and Lady Milk snatchers. Disgusting.
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