I was having a coffee, reading in the newspaper about Simon Mann.
He had just been released from a jail in Equatorial Guinea. He was put in jail for trying to plot a coup d'etat, for raising a small troop of mercenaries and trying to overthrow the government there.
Mann went to Eton, Sandhurst, and then was in the SAS. He served in the Gulf War and went on to become a mercenary. Apparently, his father once captained the England cricket team.
He was jail for four years for raising a small army and trying to overthrow a ruling African government.
I sipped my coffee. I had just been charged 25 pence for an overdue library book. I find the charges at my local library pretty steep.
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