The one subject I didn't dare raise with Simon Mann as we sat in his hellish African prison? That the despot he'd tried to overthrow was intent on eating his testicles! IAN GALLAGHER recalls his bizarre encounter with the roguish Old Etonian

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It was March 2008 and I had flown from London to interview Britain's most famous soldier of fortune - who died suddenly aged 72 on Friday - in Africa's most infamous jail, Black Beach.