LUTON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Simon Mann's press advisor Ian Monk delivers a statement to the press at the Holiday Inn on November 4, 2009 in Luton, England. Former British soldier, Simon Mann, who was jailed for 34 years for his part in a foiled plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea was pardoned on health grounds and released from a West African jail on Tuesday. Getty Images logo Getty Images 3 weeks ago

LUTON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Simon Mann's press advisor Ian Monk delivers a statement to the press at the Holiday Inn on November 4, 2009 in Luton, England. Former British soldier, Simon Mann, who was jailed for 34 years for his part in a foiled plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea was pardoned on health grounds and released from a West African jail on Tuesday.

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  1. Freed British mercenary Simon Mann, poses with his wife Amanda, at an undisclosed location in the English countryside, Friday Nov. 6, 2009, following his pardon and release by the Government of Equatorial Guinea. Mann returned home to Britain after saying he wants the son of Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and others to face justice for a conspiracy to oust Equatorial Guinea's government. Mann and four South African mercenaries were released after serving 15 months of a 34-year sentence.
  2. Freed British mercenary Simon Mann, poses with his wife Amanda, at an undisclosed location in the English countryside, Friday Nov. 6, 2009, following his pardon and release by the Government of Equatorial Guinea. Mann returned home to Britain after saying he wants the son of Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and others to face justice for a conspiracy to oust Equatorial Guinea's government. Mann and four South African mercenaries were released after serving 15 months of a 34-year sentence.
  3. Freed British mercenary Simon Mann, poses with his wife Amanda, at an undisclosed location in the English countryside, Friday Nov. 6, 2009, following his pardon and release by the Government of Equatorial Guinea. Mann returned home to Britain after saying he wants the son of Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and others to face justice for a conspiracy to oust Equatorial Guinea's government. Mann and four South African mercenaries were released after serving 15 months of a 34-year sentence.
  4. British mercenary Simon Mann' spokesman Ian Monk reads a statement at Luton airport, north of London, on November 4, 2009. British mercenary Simon Mann voiced relief Wednesday as he arrived home after more than five 'tough' years behind bars for a failed 2004 coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. Mann flew back to Britain on a private jet facing a possible new investigation into the coup plot, which could implicate other influential associates.
  5. LUTON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Simon Mann's press advisor Ian Monk delivers a statement to the press at the Holiday Inn on November 4, 2009 in Luton, England. Former British soldier, Simon Mann, who was jailed for 34 years for his part in a foiled plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea was pardoned on health grounds and released from a West African jail on Tuesday.
  6. LUTON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Simon Mann's press advisor Ian Monk delivers a statement to the press at the Holiday Inn on November 4, 2009 in Luton, England. Former British soldier, Simon Mann, who was jailed for 34 years for his part in a foiled plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea was pardoned on health grounds and released from a West African jail on Tuesday.
  7. In this video image made available Wednesday Nov. 4, 2009 British coup-plotter Simon Mann, right foreground, smiles in the courtroom after shaking hands with court officials following his pardon by the government in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009. Mann was released from prison Tuesday along with four South African mercenaries. They were given a presidential pardon for their part in a foreign-bankrolled conspiracy to overthrow the government and take over the country's oil riches.
  8. In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 photo, British coup-plotter Simon Mann, left, and four South African mercenaries attend a liberation ceremony at Black Beach Prison in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea after the five received presidential pardons. Mann left the steamy island capital of the tiny oil-rich Central African nation early Wednesday after serving 15 months of a 34-year sentence.
  9. In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 photo, British coup-plotter Simon Mann attends a liberation ceremony at Black Beach Prison in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea after he and four South African mercenaries received presidential pardons. Mann left the steamy island capital of the tiny oil-rich Central African nation early Wednesday after serving 15 months of a 34-year sentence.
  10. In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 photo, Nick du Toit, leader of a group of South African mercenaries involved in a 2004 coup attempt on Equatorial Guinea, attends a liberation ceremony at Black Beach Prison in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea after receiving a presidential pardon. British coup-plotter Simon Mann and four South African mercenaries were pardoned Tuesday and were given 24 hours to leave the tiny oil-rich Central African nation.
  11. In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 photo, British coup-plotter Simon Mann, left, and four South African mercenaries attend a liberation ceremony at Black Beach Prison in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea after the five received presidential pardons. Mann left the steamy island capital of the tiny oil-rich Central African nation early Wednesday after serving 15 months of a 34-year sentence.

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