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Trial begins, Mann hopes for clemency
Trial begins, Mann hopes for clemency
Last Modified: 17 Jun 2008
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Sue Turton
Sue Turton reports exclusively from the court where Simon Mann faces 32 years in prison over a failed coup plot.
He's in shackles, in the dock and hoping for clemency.
British mercenary Simon Mann has appeared in court in Equatorial Guinea as lawyers demanded 32 years in prison for his part in a failed coup.
The state prosecutor also named Mark Thatcher as one of the organisers of the plot to overthrow President Obiang in 2004.
Channel 4 News has managed to get the only pictures inside the court room on the first day of Mann's trial, and our correspondent Sue Turton spoke exclusively to him as he was brought into the Malabo court.
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