based businessmen Eli Calil and Greg Wales. Last week a court in Zimbabwe convicted Simon Mann, a former British special forces officer and friend of Thatcher's who has been accused of leading the alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, of weapons offences. Of the 14 foreign suspects on trial in Malabo, only one has admitted taking part in a plot: South African arms dealer Nick du Toit, for whom prosecutors want the death penalty.
