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Sir Mark Thatcher threatened over 'mercenary' friend
By Philip Sherwell, Chief Foreign Correspondent
(Filed: 25/07/2004)

Sir Mark Thatcher and his family have been threatened by anonymous blackmailers over his friendship with Simon Mann, the former SAS officer and alleged mercenary leader on trial in Zimbabwe.

Sir Mark and his Texan wife, Diane, who live in the elegant Cape Town suburb of Constantia, are among several of Mr Mann's friends to have received menacing calls from men with South African accents demanding large sums of money. One caller said that he knew where the Thatchers' two children went to school.

The would-be blackmailers are believed to be linked to Afrikaner members of the alleged mercenary gang who have fallen out with Mr Mann since their arrest in Harare. The men are accused of planning to stage a coup in Equatorial Guinea.

The callers are thought to be attempting to extort money from Mr Mann's acquaintances in revenge for the falling out, but none is known to have paid.

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