The Basingstoke resident said he chose to write the book as a follow-up to a previous book about the life of William, first Baron Sandys of the Vynne, published in December 2021.

When David Tomkins appears before a court in Miami next week it could bring to a close an astonishing story which pitted the medallion man from Basingstoke in a deadly battle against the world's ...

A British mercenary who confessed to conspiring to buy a fighter jet in a plot to kill a Colombian drugs baron will be sentenced on Tuesday. David Tomkins, 64, from Basingstoke, Hampshire, admitted ...

A British mercenary today pleaded guilty to conspiring to buy a fighter jet in an elaborate plot to kill a Colombian drugs baron. David Tomkins, 64, from Basingstoke, confessed in a Miami court to ...

A British mercenary who conspired to buy a fighter jet and kill a Colombian drugs baron will face a US jail term. David Tomkins confessed in a Miami court to trying to buy the Vietnam-era plane to ...