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Taking on huge risks, prepared to murder and maim for money but they get caught. Why shouldn't they go on trial? The only reason Mark T isn't there is bacause his mum bailed him out AGAIN!
My heart bleeds
Mark Thatcher is stupid, venal and a crook. There's a rumour that the president of Equatorial Guinea has hired some Russian mercenaries to kill him, hence why he's holed up with tight security in Southern Spain.
I hope they manage to get through
The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”
It was a done deal, win/win like I said. He was hung out to dry. I just think the attitude that he was a merciless mercenary is not concurrent with reality. And that if he has to do time it should be in the UK or SA. In E.Guinea he will be in a place worse than you or I can even imagine.
Does anyone else see the ignorance in that remark?
Mark Thatcher, well known humanitarianist, when he's not selling Arms that is
The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”
It was a done deal, win/win like I said. He was hung out to dry. I just think the attitude that he was a merciless mercenary is not concurrent with reality. And that if he has to do time it should be in the UK or SA. In E.Guinea he will be in a place worse than you or I can even imagine.
I don't know what your point is. From what I can see some sleazy, greedy characters planned a coup whose aim, no doubt, was to instal some puppet regime which would be sympathetic to their plundering the country's oil/other reserves.
It failed, they knew the risks, I couldn't care less about what happens to them.
–noun
1. humanitarian principles or practices.
2. Ethics. a. the doctrine that humanity's obligations are concerned wholly with the welfare of the human race.
b. the doctrine that humankind may become perfect without divine aid.
3. Theology. the doctrine that Jesus Christ possessed a human nature only.
The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”
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