# David Noakes

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{{Short description|British businessman and politician}}
{{distinguish|text=the Liberal Democrat councillor on [Southwark Borough Council](/source/2014_Southwark_London_Borough_Council_election)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = David Noakes
| birth_date         = March 1953
| occupation         = Computer consultant, businessman and politician
| known_for          = Founding Immuno Biotech Ltd. to promote the controversial use of [GcMAF](/source/GcMAF)
| criminal_charges   = [Money laundering](/source/Money_laundering), manufacturing, supplying and selling an unlicensed medicine
| criminal_penalty   = 15 months imprisonment
}}
'''David Noakes''' (born March 1953)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/bPLfBYgff6O2q9jJJnnJtklgRng/appointments|title=David Noakes|work=Companies House}}</ref> is a British computer consultant,<ref name=contender/> businessman and politician, who founded Immuno Biotech Ltd. to promote the unproven therapy [GcMAF](/source/GcMAF)<ref name="Anticancer Fund">{{cite web | url = https://www.anticancerfund.org/en/gcmaf-story-exploitation-and-lies | title = GcMAF: a story of exploitation and lies| date = 8 December 2017| publisher = Anticancer Fund | accessdate=2018-07-28}}</ref> and came last in the [2006 UKIP leadership election](/source/2006_UK_Independence_Party_leadership_election). He pleaded guilty to "money laundering and manufacturing, supplying and selling an unlicensed medicine" and was sentenced in November 2018 to 15 months' imprisonment.<ref name="BBC2018"/>

==Business==
Noakes was a computer consultant for a decade.<ref name=contender/> In 2004, he designed an alphabetical [keyboard layout](/source/keyboard_layout).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/7282019.New_computer_keyboard_is_simple_as_ABC/|title=New computer keyboard is simple as ABC|date=15 April 2004|work=Gazette and Herald}}</ref> He says he has worked for several Cornish companies, including [Holman Brothers](/source/Holman_Brothers), [Mount Wellington Tin Mine](/source/Mount_Wellington_Tin_Mine), and Phillips Frith, and in several countries,<ref name=campaigns/> including in Brussels and for JPMorgan [Chase Bank](/source/Chase_Bank) in New York.<ref name=eutruth>{{cite web|url=http://eutruth.org.uk/david-noakes.html|title=David Noakes|work=EU Truth|access-date=27 January 2018|archive-date=18 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170718221006/http://eutruth.org.uk/david-noakes.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Immuno Biotech===
Noakes is CEO and owner of Immuno Biotech Ltd. (trade name First Immune), a [Guernsey](/source/Guernsey) company that promotes the use of the protein [GcMAF](/source/GcMAF), a [blood product](/source/blood_product), as a cure for cancer, autism, HIV, [multiple sclerosis](/source/multiple_sclerosis), and other diseases,<ref name=trial/><ref name=wonder/> claiming to treat 10,000 patients worldwide<ref name=warned/> with income of £1 million per month.<ref name=million>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2015/03/04/gcmaf-was-making-a-million-a-month/|title=GcMaf was making a million a month|date=4 March 2015|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref> Noakes began promoting GcMAF in 2010,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newsdecode.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/the-gc-maf-cancer-cure-patients-wanted/|title=The Gc MAF cancer cure|work=News Decode|last=Noakes|first=David|date=3 March 2010}}</ref> and the company had laboratories in Oxford in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/6/prweb9651313.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719233150/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/6/prweb9651313.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 July 2012|title=GcMAF – The most important discovery in autism treatment?|date=29 June 2012|work=PR Web}}</ref> Noakes has been on the board of governors of the [National Health Federation](/source/National_Health_Federation) (a lobbying group promoting alternative medicine<ref>{{cite book| last = Schneirov | first = Matthew David |author2=Jonathan David Geczik | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZIdUEFyM9T0C | title = A Diagnosis for Our Times: Alternative Health, from Lifeworld to Politics | location = Albany, New York | publisher = SUNY Press | year = 2003 | pages = 129| isbn = 9780791457313 }}</ref> ) since April 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenhf.com/about-nhf/our-team?view=category&id=109|title=Board of Governors|work=National Health Federation}}</ref> and was on the long list for [Guernsey Press](/source/Guernsey_Press) Ambassador of the Year 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2014/01/20/flying-the-flag-for-us-all/|title=Flying the flag for us all|date=20 January 2014|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref> Noakes advised cancer patients to not take chemotherapy<ref name=unlicensed/> and promoted the treatment to the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce despite criticism from [Cancer Research UK](/source/Cancer_Research_UK);<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2013/01/24/cancer-cure-claim-sparks-heated-debate-at-seminar/|title=Cancer cure claim sparks heated debate at seminar|date=24 January 2013|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref> doctors on Guernsey all declined an invite to a meeting about GcMAF.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2014/05/05/lobbying-to-intensify-to-allow-banned-cancer-treatment/|title=Lobbying to intensify to allow banned cancer treatment|date=5 May 2014|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref>

In July 2014, NatWest bank closed the company's accounts.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-28133042 |title=Natwest shuts cancer company account |work=BBC News Guernsey |publisher=BBC |date=3 July 2014 |last=Weir |first=Mike}}</ref> In 2015, the UK [Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency](/source/Medicines_and_Healthcare_products_Regulatory_Agency) (MHRA) took over 10,000 vials of GcMAF during an inspection of the company's unlicensed [Milton, Cambridgeshire](/source/Milton%2C_Cambridgeshire) site and shut down production,<ref name=unlicensed>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34326801|title=Unlicensed blood drug GcMAF still for sale|first=Ruth|last=Evans|work=5 live Investigates|publisher=BBC|date=27 September 2015}}</ref> after it found that the plasma the GcMAF was derived from was not for human use, and that the production site did not meet [good manufacturing practice](/source/good_manufacturing_practice) standards.<ref name=warned>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-31114741|title=Guernsey residents warned free cancer drug 'a risk to health'|work=BBC News Guernsey|publisher=BBC|date=3 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2015/02/05/gcmaf-users-not-given-protection-they-deserve/|title=GcMaf users 'not given protection they deserve'|work=Guernsey Press|date=5 February 2015}}</ref> Noakes' former personal assistant, who worked for him in 2012, said that sometimes Noakes' own blood was used.<ref name=million/> The company had been supplying GcMAF to around 100 Guernsey residents free of charge until imports were prohibited by the Guernsey Border Agency in February 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-31920451|title=GcMAF cancer drug imports 'could resume' in Guernsey|work=BBC News Guernsey|publisher=BBC|date=17 March 2015}}</ref><ref name=warned/> Noakes' company began supplying an alternative called Goleic in place of GcMAF.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2015/02/25/gcmaf-replacement-is-licensed-in-germany-says-ceo/|title=GcMaf replacement is licensed in Germany, says CEO|date=25 February 2015|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref> Noakes claimed in March 2015 that the UK authorities were harassing him and his family,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2015/03/07/theyre-out-to-destroy-us-claims-gcmaf-boss/|title='They're out to destroy us' claims GcMaf boss|date=7 March 2015|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref> then was interviewed by the BBC's ''[The One Show](/source/The_One_Show)'' in May 2015, but stormed out and threatened to smash the camera.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2015/05/07/gcmaf-creator-in-one-show-interview-bust-up/|title=GcMaf creator in One Show interview bust-up|date=7 May 2015|work=The Guernsey Press}}</ref> A complaint to the [BBC Trust](/source/BBC_Trust) about the interview was dismissed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/appeals/esc_bulletins/2015/oct.pdf#page=44|title=The One Show, BBC One, 6 May 2015|work=Editorial Standards Findings|publisher=BBC Trust|date=December 2015}}</ref> Later that summer, the Swiss regulator [Swissmedic](/source/Swissmedic) closed the First Immune clinic in Bussigny,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2015/07/09/criminal-investigation-into-swiss-gcmaf-clinic/|title=Criminal investigation into Swiss GcMaf clinic|date=9 July 2015|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref> after five deaths of patients since it opened in October 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.24heures.ch/vaud-regions/lausanne-region/Personne-n-est-mort-dans-la-clinique-de-Bussigny/story/15952423|work=[24 heures](/source/24_heures_(Switzerland))|language=French|date=20 August 2015|first=Emmanuel|last=Borloz|title=Suspecté de la mort de cinq patients, le patron répond}}</ref> Noakes worked with American autism doctor [Jeff Bradstreet](/source/Jeff_Bradstreet) until the latter committed suicide in June 2015, following a federal government raid of his office in connection to his work on GcMAF. Noakes also worked with scientist [Marco Ruggiero](/source/Marco_Ruggiero) until Noakes' Swiss clinic was closed.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://oggiscienza.it/2017/04/20/panacea-marco-ruggiero-vista-europol/|title=La panacea di Marco Ruggiero, vista da Europol|work=Oggiscienza|date=20 April 2017|first=Sylvie|last=Coyaud|language=Italian}}</ref>

In November 2015, Noakes was found guilty by an employment tribunal of [sex discrimination](/source/sex_discrimination) against his former personal assistant at Immuno Biotech, Lucia Pagliarone, and was made to pay £10,500. Pagliarone claimed she was asked to give injections as part of her role, despite not having medical training.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11999872/Immuno-Biotech-drugs-boss-David-Noake-guilty-of-sexism.html|title=Drugs boss who said he 'only employs beautiful women' guilty of sexism|work=Telegraph|date=17 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/Article/2015/11/18/CEO-who-only-employs-beautiful-women-guilty-of-sex-discrimination|title=CEO who 'only employs beautiful women' guilty of sex discrimination|date=18 November 2015|first=Fiona|last=Barry|work=In Pharma Technologist}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=99001&p=0|title=Case No: ED0004/15|work=Employment & Discrimination Tribunal|publisher=States of Guernsey|date=10 November 2015}}</ref>

Despite a police search of the Immuno Biotech office and a home in January 2016,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2016/06/01/items-not-on-warrant-taken-during-raids-on-gcmaf-firm/|title=Items not on warrant taken during raids on GcMaf firm|date=1 June 2016|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref> Noakes had predicted in November 2016 that the MHRA investigation would come to nothing and he would "take down" the regulator;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2016/11/05/gcmaf-creator-ill-bring-down-medicine-regulator/|title=GcMaf creator: 'I'll bring down medicine regulator'|date=5 November 2016|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref> however, [Guernsey police](/source/States_of_Guernsey_Police_Service) again raided the Immuno Biotech office in Lower Pollet in February 2017<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2017/02/23/law-enforcement-raid-offices-of-gcmaf-firm/|title=Law Enforcement raid offices of GcMaf firm|work=Guernsey Press|date=23 February 2017}}</ref> and arrested a man and a woman, which Noakes said was a "smear campaign".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2017/02/24/immuno-biotech-offices-raid-all-part-of-smear-campaign/|title=Immuno Biotech offices raid 'all part of smear campaign'|date=24 February 2017|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref> French gendarmes also raided three locations in Normandy in February 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lejdd.fr/International/Europe/Un-chef-du-Ukip-vise-par-une-enquete-en-France-853937|title=Un chef du Ukip visé par une enquête en France|date=12 March 2017|work=theJDD.fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824151233/https://www.lejdd.fr/International/Europe/Un-chef-du-Ukip-vise-par-une-enquete-en-France-853937 |archive-date=24 August 2021 |language=French}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2017/02/28/01016-20170228ARTFIG00121-un-reseau-de-laboratoires-clandestins-demantele-en-normandie.php|title=Un réseau de laboratoires clandestins démantelé en Normandie|first=Louis|last=Germain|date=28 February 2017|work=Le Figaro|language=French}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2017/02/25/97001-20170225FILWWW00181-trafic-de-medicaments-deux-britanniques-mis-en-examen.php|title=Trafic de médicaments: deux Britanniques mis en examen|date=25 February 2015|work=lefigaro.fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412183121/https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2017/02/25/97001-20170225FILWWW00181-trafic-de-medicaments-deux-britanniques-mis-en-examen.php |archive-date=12 April 2021 |language=French}}</ref> Noakes also ran a company, Macro Innovations, that illegally manufactured GcMAF for patient use at a laboratory in Cambridgeshire.<ref name=cps/> Noakes was charged with money laundering, and conspiracy to manufacture a medicinal product without a licence, by the [Crown Prosecution Service](/source/Crown_Prosecution_Service)'s Specialist Fraud Division in July 2017. He stood trial at [Southwark Crown Court](/source/Southwark_Crown_Court) in November 2018, along with Brian Hall, Emma Ward and his former wife Loraine Noakes.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.itv.com/news/channel/2017-07-26/guernsey-wonder-drug-producer-charged-by-uk-fraud-division/|title=Guernsey 'wonder drug' producer charged by UK Fraud Division|date=26 July 2017|work=ITV News}}</ref><ref name=trial>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-jersey-41782179?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=59f9d949e4b0c7acd6fa79fa%26David%20Noakes%20facing%20drug%20and%20money%20laundering%20charges%26&ns_fee=0#post_59f9d949e4b0c7acd6fa79fa|title=Creator of drug made from human blood to stand trial|work=BBC Local Live: Channel Islands|last=Byrne|first=Rob|date=1 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=wonder>{{cite news|url=http://www.itv.com/news/channel/2017-11-01/wonder-drug-creator-to-stand-trial/|title='Wonder drug' creator to stand trial|date=1 November 2017|work=ITV News}}</ref> Two of his Guernsey staff appeared in court in January 2018, in connection with the inquiry into Noakes' suspected criminal conduct.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://gsy.bailiwickexpress.com/gsy/news/immune-biotech-staff-appear-court-linked-gcmaf-profits/|title=Immuno Biotech staff appear in court linked with GcMaf profits|work=Bailiwick Express|date=16 January 2018}}</ref>

Noakes pleaded guilty in UK to "money laundering and manufacturing, supplying and selling an unlicensed medicine" and was sentenced in November 2018 to 15 months' imprisonment.<ref name="BBC2018">{{citation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-46359949 |title=Cancer 'cure' boss David Noakes jailed for 15 months |date=27 November 2018 |last=BBC  |work=BBC News }}</ref> He failed to report to police in December 2019 while on bail and was arrested in May 2020 in [Truro](/source/Truro). In June 2020, a confiscation order of £1,349,400.48 was made at [Southwark Crown Court](/source/Southwark_Crown_Court) against Noakes and his company.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-52947719|title=Guernsey 'cancer cure' conman to see assets seized|date=June 8, 2020|work=BBC News}}</ref>

In April 2021 Noakes pleaded guilty in France to manufacturing and selling fake medicinal products and cosmetics by Internet and sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment.<ref name =Notretemps>{{cite news |url=https://www.notretemps.com/high-tech/actualites/cinq-britanniques-condamnes-pour-la-afp-202104,i241976 |title=Cinq Britanniques condamnés pour la vente d'un médicament "miracle" sur internet |publisher=Notretemps |language=fr |date=15 April 2021 |archive-date=17 April 2021 |access-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417083942/https://www.notretemps.com/high-tech/actualites/cinq-britanniques-condamnes-pour-la-afp-202104,i241976 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Politics==
Noakes joined [UKIP](/source/UKIP) in 2003,<ref name=cash/> and was its parliamentary candidate in [Truro and St Austell](/source/Truro_and_St_Austell) in 2005, gaining 5.3% of the vote.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/586.stm|title=Result: Truro & St Austell|date=6 May 2005|work=BBC News}}</ref> Noakes came last of the four candidates in the [2006 UKIP leadership election](/source/2006_UK_Independence_Party_leadership_election), with 851 votes. During the election campaign he called the EU a "police state" and advocated UKIP forming a shadow cabinet;<ref name=contender>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5214022.stm|title=UKIP contender: David Noakes|date=27 July 2006|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/ukip-leadership-rivals-in-profile-1-76648|title=UKIP leadership rivals in profile
|work=East Anglian Daily Times|date=14 August 2006|last=Dines|first=Graham}}</ref> [Nigel Farage](/source/Nigel_Farage) won with 3,329 votes.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/sep/13/otherparties.politics|title=Nigel Farage wins Ukip leadership contest|last=Branigan|first=Tanya|date=13 September 2006|work=The Guardian}}</ref> Noakes left UKIP in February 2007, writing in a letter that the leadership had betrayed the membership; [Mark Croucher](/source/Mark_Croucher) said Noakes was "a swivel-eyed loon whose insane conspiracy theories make the rest of us look as mad as a box of frogs".<ref name=cash>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1543788/Ukip-spent-cash-meant-for-MEPs.html|title=Ukip 'spent cash meant for MEPs'|work=Telegraph|date=25 February 2007|last1=Watts|first1=Robert|last2=Alderson|first2=Andrew}}</ref>

Noakes was an independent town councillor for Penwerris ward on [Falmouth Town Council](/source/Falmouth_Town_Council) and a member of the planning committee from May 2007 until January 2010, when he resigned due to "work commitments".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.falmouthtowncouncil.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222074204/http://www.falmouthtowncouncil.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10|url-status=dead|title=Falmouth Town Council|archive-date=22 December 2008|access-date=4 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.falmouthtowncouncil.co.uk/0misc/annual_report_2009_2010.pdf|work=Falmouth Town Council|title=Annual Report 2009/10|date=2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/cornwall_news/1384267.Kicked_out_/|title=Kicked-out!|first=Gavin|last=Harlow|date=9 May 2007|work=The Falmouth Packet}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/fpfalmouth/8195759.New_Falmouth_town_councillor/|title=New Falmouth town councillor|first=James|last=Toseland|date=2 June 2010|work=The Falmouth Packet}}</ref> He was fourth on the list for the [United Kingdom First Party](/source/United_Kingdom_First_Party) in the [East Midlands region for the 2009 European Parliament elections](/source/East_Midlands_(European_Parliament_constituency));<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8038897.stm|title=European election candidates: East Midlands|date=2 June 2009|work=BBC News}}</ref> UK First received 1.7% of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/guide/east-midlands-european/|title=East Midlands Euros|date=2010|work=UK Polling Report}}</ref> He stood in the [December 2015 Guernsey by-election](/source/2015_St_Peter_Port_North_by-election) in [Saint Peter Port North](/source/Saint_Peter_Port_North)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-34708659|title=Three candidates in Guernsey by-election|date=3 November 2015|work=BBC Guernsey}}</ref> on a platform of increased democracy in Guernsey and introducing a constitution,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2015/12/01/st-peter-port-north-by-election-candidates-manifestos/|title=St Peter Port North by-election candidates' manifestos|date=1 December 2015|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref> gaining 109 votes (12.3%).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-34975191|title=Charles Parkinson elected to Guernsey States in landslide|work=BBC News Guernsey|publisher=BBC|date=2 December 2015}}</ref>

Noakes runs the website EUTruth.org,<ref name=contender/> and since 2007 has published the free monthly newspaper ''Westminster News'' in which he promoted a [conspiracy theory](/source/conspiracy_theory) that [Zionists](/source/Zionists) and the German company [Siemens](/source/Siemens) control the BBC. He has also promoted conspiracy theories about the [Illuminati](/source/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cst.org.uk/news/blog/2014/04/01/beware-the-ides-of-march-malaysian-airlines-the-ukrainian-revolution-bbc-washington|title=Beware the Ides of March: Malaysian Airlines, the Ukrainian Revolution, BBC, Washington|work=Community Security Trust|date=1 April 2014}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Noakes was born in London,<ref name=eutruth/> went to [Truro School](/source/Truro_School)<ref name=campaigns>{{cite web|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=86707|title=Noakes, David|work=Our Campaigns}}</ref> and has lived in Port Pendennis, [Falmouth, Cornwall](/source/Falmouth%2C_Cornwall),<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/7169085.Election_candidates_set_out_on_campaign_trail/|title=Election candidates set out on campaign trail|date=14 April 2005|work=Somerset County Gazette}}</ref> Guernsey, and [Waldershare](/source/Waldershare) in Kent, where he was living before being jailed in 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/12/21/gcmaf-boss-on-the-run-as-france-seeks-arrest/|title=GcMAF boss on the run as France seeks arrest|date=December 21, 2019|work=Guernsey Press}}</ref>

He was married in 1989<ref name=eutruth/> to Loraine, with whom he has a son and a daughter.<ref name=contender/><ref name=trial/> The two separated in 2007,<ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-11-20|title=Cancer 'cure' distributed in household flasks|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-46269308|access-date=2021-02-17}}</ref> but did not divorce until 2018.<ref name="cps">{{cite news|date=November 27, 2018|title=Men jailed for selling unlicensed medicines to sick patients|work=CPS|url=https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/men-jailed-selling-unlicensed-medicines-sick-patients|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804202835/https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/men-jailed-selling-unlicensed-medicines-sick-patients|archive-date=2020-08-04}}</ref> Noakes sailed a yacht called ''Moonlight'' out of Falmouth between 2005 and 2010,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://classicyachtinfo.com/yachts/rita-3/|title=Yacht: Rita|work=Classic Yacht Info}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/1501206.World_title_for_Rebecca/|title=World title for Rebecca|work=The Falmouth Packet|date=27 June 2007|last=Medlyn|first=Ron}}</ref> and holds a pilot's licence.<ref name=eutruth/>

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