person was necessarily Henri Paul. Post-MI6 activities In August 1998, Tomlinson left the United Kingdom for France, and shortly afterwards moved to New Zealand. Later that month he was deported from the United States, and in October 1998 he moved to Switzerland, before being expelled in June 1999 after the Swiss authorities described his presence there as "undesirable". He moved to Germany until he was hounded out by officials, whereupon he moved to Italy. In 2001 he left Rimini in Italy, where he had been working as a waiter and a snowboarding instructor, for the south of France near Cannes where he worked as a yacht broker for BCR Yachts. From 2006–7, Tomlinson maintained a series of blogs detailing his treatment. His Riviera home was raided by police in 2006. In 2007, government lawyers decided not to prosecute him for publishing The Big Breach. The Crown Prosecution Service said there was no real prospect of conviction in a jury trial, which would reveal "sensitive matters". In 2009, MI6 agreed to allow Tomlinson to return to Britain, unfreeze royalties from his book and drop the threat of charges if he agreed to stop disclosing information about MI6 and speaking to the media. According to The Sunday Times, MI6 also apologised for its "unfair treatment" of him. He now lives permanently in France and has retrained as a professional pilot. Personal life In 1998, Tomlinson was described as possessing "the air of slight arrogance that goes with good looks, a hard-trained body and a sharp intellect". The Geneva press reported that he had a "perfect command of French". References External links 2008 Diana Inquest transcript - morning session 2008 Diana Inquest transcript - afternoon session Exhibit from 2008 Diana Inquest Second exhibit Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Kennedy Scholarships Secret Intelligence Service personnel Artists' Rifles soldiers University of Buenos Aires alumni 1963 births Living people People educated at Barnard Castle School People from Hamilton, New Zealand People from Ngāruawāhia British whistleblowers English emigrants to France Inmates of HM Prison Belmarsh British expatriates in Ghana British expatriates in Nigeria English expatriates in Kenya New Zealand emigrants to the United Kingdom New Zealand people of English descent People from Cumbria Special Air Service soldiers New Zealand emigrants to France British expatriates in Mexico New Zealand expatriates in Nigeria English aviators New Zealand aviators