Seychelles plotters named

Press, 10 December 1983, Page 11

Seychelles plotters named

NZPA-AFP Pretoria The South African police yesterday identified four men engaged in a plot to overthrow the Seychelles Government, which was revealed last week by the Law and Order Minister, Mr Louis le Grange. Mr le Grange had said that five people had been arrested, but did not give their names.

A police spokesman yesterday named four of them as Garth John Mark Barrett, a South African former member of the Rhodesian Special Air Service Regiment, George Arthur Lloyd, also South African, John Nolan, a Briton, and Keith Cloete, a Zimbabwean and also a former member of the Rhodesian SA.S.

It was announced at the beginning of the week that the four had been released.

A fifth person who was also initially arrested, a British private detective, Keith Williamson, was deported to Britain last weekend.

The police spokesman yesterday denied that Mr Williamson had helped the police uncover the plot, as the South African press had reported, indicating that he had hindered them.

The spokesman said that inquiries to learn if foreign governments were in the plot, and who financed it, were continuing. He also denied a Seychelles Government assertion that there existed in South Africa a mercenary trailing camp.