Simon Mann, the former UK special forces officer, was facing extradition to Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday on charges of plotting a coup after a Zimbabwean court rejected defence arguments that he would not receive a fair trial and could be tortured.
Mr Mann has been held in a Zimbabwe prison since September 2004 when he was convicted of illegally attempting to buy weapons. At the time it was alleged that he was the ringleader of a group of mercenaries en route to Equatorial Guinea to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
