Charles Tailor, The Former Liberian President/War Criminal, Secretly Sent To UK Jail

Liberian ex-warlord Charles Taylor was on Tuesday transferred under tight security from The Hague to a British prison where the convicted war criminal is likely to spend the rest of his life.

Britain made a deal to take Taylor long before he lost his appeal against a 50-year sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity before the UN's Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in The Hague last week.

A chartered plane flew Taylor, accompanied by guards, to Britain where he arrived at 1000 GMT and "was handed over to representatives of Her Majesty's Prison Service," the Special Court to the United Kingdom said.

The former president, 65, is likely to die behind bars after the UN-backed SCSL last month upheld his sentence for arming rebels during Sierra Leone's brutal civil war during the 1990s.