"A man with no medical qualifications who manufactured an unlicensed blood product marketed as a cancer "cure" has been jailed for 15 months. Former UKIP leadership contender David Noakes illegally made products containing GcMAF, sold as a so-called cure for a number of conditions, including HIV and autism - and earned enough doing so to spend nearly £1m on planes. So how did a man who had spent the bulk of his career working in IT come to lead the global supply of a medical product that he claimed helped thousands? Born in London, 65-year-old Noakes worked in IT in the UK, USA, and Belgium, according to a CV posted on his website. Witnessing "the waste close up" in Brussels, he wrote, Noakes turned campaigner against the UK's membership of the European Union, describing it as a "brutal police state" on his EUtruth site. His views saw him gravitate to UKIP, standing for the party as a candidate in Truro and St Austell at the 2005 General Election and gaining 5.3% of the vote, an improvement on the party's 2001 showing. In 2006, he came fourth in the party's leadership contest, losing to then MEP for the South East Nigel Farage." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-46247816