Pardon me if I don't shit my pants in surprise.
Mark Thatcher, sleaze-ball, crook and the true definition of a what it is to be a 'son of a bitch', walks away from his trial with a quarter-million slap on the wrist and a warning not to be so naive about ex-military men who hoard automatic machine guns for revolutionary figures. What a fucking con. No doubt he'll arrive back in the UK to receive the standard press coverage that upper-class criminals always get - the perspective that such people are bumbling incompetents who, due to their genetic inbreeding, consistently (and harmlessly) fail to know the difference between right and wrong (or in this case, the difference between tree-hugging wimps who want to fly around saving lives in an air ambulance, and armed-to-the-fucking-teeth mercenaries that want to overthrow a government).
Bullshit. I'm surprised the South Africans went along with it, considering his mother's reluctance to support the end of apartheid. I'd have thought Nelson would have had him skull-fucked.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4169557.stm