{"id":282,"date":"2005-01-12T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/12\/mark-thatcher-pleads-guilty\/"},"modified":"2005-01-12T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T18:24:12","slug":"mark-thatcher-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/mark-thatcher-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Thatcher Pleads Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Thatcher\">Sir Mark Thatcher,<\/a> scion of former British Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaretthatcher.org\/\"> Margaret Thatcher <\/a>and former British Prime Minister&#8217;s husband <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2003\/06\/27\/ndenis27.xml\">Sir Denis Thatcher<\/a>, is expected to appear in court in South Africa tomorrow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pa.press.net\/story.php?ID=A24087811105552894A000\">&#8220;amid reports of a plea bargain deal&#8221;<\/a> in connection with accusations that he was involved in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>The charmless <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Yamamah\">arms dealer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/january\/12\/newsid_2523000\/2523841.stm\">incompetent rallyist<\/a> had previously <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/3596948.stm\">insisted on his innocence<\/a>. This news will surely lead to  the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Thatcher\/Story\/0,2763,401273,00.html\">sadness and depression<\/a> that greeted his mother&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Mark Thatcher, scion of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former British Prime Minister&#8217;s husband Sir Denis Thatcher, is expected to appear in court in South Africa tomorrow &#8220;amid reports of a plea bargain deal&#8221; in connection with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/mark-thatcher-pleads-guilty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}