THE British pensioner released from a South African jail after being mistaken for a dangerous fugitive yesterday told how President Thabo Mbeki rang to apologise for his ordeal.

A BRITISH pensioner who was imprisoned in South Africa after the FBI mistook him for a dangerous fugitive broke down in tears as he told yesterday of his “enormous relief” at being released.

THE family of a British pensioner (pictured) who was arrested in South Africa on suspicion of being one of America’s most wanted criminals insisted yesterday that he was the victim of mistaken identity.