Nick du Toit

Alleged South African ringleader of a group of coup-plotters now on trial in the Equatorial Guinean capital Malabo. The prosecution has called for the death sentence against him.

He told the court in Malabo he was recruited by Simon Mann but had a limited logistical role in the alleged plot. He said he was told the plotters were aiming to install Severo Moto as president.

Du Toit is a former member of the South African army's elite Special Task Forces unit and worked alongside Mann in a mercenary outfit in Angola and Sierra Leone.