Until he was suspended Afzal Amin was to become the Conservative Party's first new ethnic minority candidate to fight in the May General Election.
His rise within the party belies the fact he left school with few qualifications.
After being brought up and schooled in the Black Country town of Smethwick in Staffordshire, he attended Sandwell College before working as a waiter and finance clerk.
He spent 11 years in the military and rose to the rank of captain in the Army's education service, where he taught Princes Harry and William in Windsor, according to Mr Amin's website.
He claims to have been selected to attend Sandhurst's Royal Military Academy in 2001, and has seen operational service in Iraq and three times in Afghanistan.
"There is no greater expression of service to one's country and compatriots than being willing to lay down one's own life to protect and defend others," he wrote in November last year.
He is a former chairman of the Armed Forces Muslim Association and has given lectures to foreign government officials on how to combat homegrown radicalisation.
When Fusilier Lee Rigby was murdered in May 2013, Mr Amin said he believed members of the British military from all racial backgrounds would unite to condemn the "horrific and brutal" attack.
Mr Amin was hoping to win the Dudley North constituency seat on 7 May which is currently held by incumbent Austin Mitchell, who has a Labour majority of 649.
He has been married to wife Michelle for 20 years and the couple have two teenage children.
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