Paul Henke was elected Chairman of the UK Independence Party in Scotland on the 22nd of September 2007.
He was educated in South Wales and went on to train at Dartmouth Royal Naval College to be a Royal Naval officer, where he worked with Prince Charles for a year.
He later qualified as a bomb and mine disposal expert, specialising in diving and handling explosives. He led a crack team of underwater bomb disposal specialists and also became the Commanding Officer of various minesweeping and minehunting ships. Using plastic explosives he was responsible for blowing-up a number of Second World War mines found off the coast of Britain.
He lived in Nigeria for fifteen months where he was in charge of a saturation diving system. He then moved to the American Midwest for the next year.
He has travelled extensively, researching material for his work and is now a full time writer.
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