Simon Manns wife reveals his life of luxury at hands of lovely dictator

By Anita Singh 730AM GMT 10 March 2010

Amanda and Simon Mann were reunited after five years detached Photo PA

Mann was condemned in 2008 to 34 years in the scandalous "hellhole" that is Malabo"s Black Beach jail for his purpose in the cursed coup.

Yet, according to the unusual claims of Mrs Mann, in her initial talk given her father was postulated a presidential atonement in Nov 2009, conditions there could not have been nicer.

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Rather than flourishing on the small rations handed out to associate prisoners, the Old Etonian and former SAS commando dined on food rebuilt by a road house chef, supposing in such plentiful quantities that he embarked on a diet to stay slim.

When he compulsory healing diagnosis for a hernia, he was cared for in the "fabulous" president"s in isolation clinic.

"The boss organised for road house dishes each day and Simon pronounced he knew that cook was on that day by the food they baked but he never ate all of it since he longed for to stay trim and slim," Mrs Mann told Tatler magazine.

Mann"s diagnosis at the hands of President Teodoro Obiang was so wonderful, she said, that the integrate have sent the "lovely" tyrant a book about the New Forest as a thank-you.

President Obiang postulated Mann a atonement on "humanitarian grounds". At the time, tactful sources referred to Mann had struck a tip understanding whereby he concerned others, together with Sir Mark Thatcher, son of Lady Thatcher, and Ely Calil, a London-based businessman, in the manoeuvre in sell for his freedom. Both have regularly denied any involvement.

Mrs Mann"s talk raises some-more questions than it answers about the ghastly resources surrounding her husband"s release.

He was arrested in Zimbabwe in 2004 after alighting at Harare airfield with a rope of South African mercenaries to collect up a cache of weapons, together with 100 rocket-propelled grenades launchers and 61 AK attack rifles.

After 4 years in jail there he was kidnapped and smuggled in to Equatorial Guinea, the oil-rich West African nation, where he stood hearing and perceived a 34-year sentence.

Mrs Mann, 39, pronounced she was on the verge of withdrawal her 57-year-old husband, Sandhurst-educated successor to the Mann brewing fortune, last year since she did not know if he would ever be freed. She gave bieing born to his fourth child, Arthur, whilst he was in prison.

However, she explained "Little did I know that President Obiang was bustling being a lovely, poetic man and giving me behind the man I love and the father of my children. He was becoming different the approach he ran his country, and seeking to reform, and his diagnosis of Simon was a pointer of that.

"I never knew that the boss was going to be as fanciful as he was and I"m evermore beholden to him."

She refused to endorse or repudiate that she knew about the programmed coup, observant usually "He wasn"t like, "I"m off to buy a cloak and afterwards I"m off to do a coup". He was here and there... If I were a highly-strung person, I would right away be passed or at the bottom of a bottle of gin. You have to live and let live. And he could only as simply have been run over by a bus. I"m flattering laidback."

The Manns sojourn in unchanging hit with the Equatorial Guinea government, Mrs Mann said, on vacation the embassy in Mayfair for tea. Mr Mann is operative on a book about his distress and plans to sell the movie rights.