A Brexit Party running mate of Nigel Farage in Thursday's European election helped spread fake news for a Bosnian Serb warlord later jailed for crimes against humanity, an investigation by SourceMaterial and openDemocracy has discovered.
John Kennedy, a former Tory now standing in the South East region on a list headed by Farage, was for a time monitored by the security services for his close work with Radovan Karadžić, who in March was sentenced for life on charges including genocide, murder and extermination.
A former equerry to Prince Michael of Kent and one-time owner of the Almanach de Gotha, a directory of Europe's aristocracy, Kennedy in July 1992 organised a Westminster press conference with Karadžić at which they distributed a pamphlet listing Bosnian atrocities against Serbs that were later disproved.
