Under fire Ukip boss Henry Bolton is at the centre of a dirty tricks campaign by his own party over his shamed former mistress Jo Marney, her ex-boyfriend claims.
Patrick Gilmour leaked explosive emails from topless model Marney, 25, to Ukip plotters, where she joked about raping babies.
Mr Gilmour said he was contacted by a clandestine group in the anti-EU party when Bolton announced he was leaving his wife for new girlfriend Marney.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Mr Gilmour, cousin of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour, said: ‘I sent the messages because I wanted them to know what kind of a person Jo is. She can be manipulative and unpredictable.’
Left, Ukip leader Henry Bolton with ex-girlfriend Jo Marney and right, Ms Marney, with former partner Patrick Gilmour, cousin of Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour
Left, Ms Marney with Pink Floyd star Dave Gilmour, before she began dating Ukip boss Bolton
He added: ‘I didn’t expect those messages to be published and for Bolton to know where they had come from.
‘I feel like I have been used as a pawn in a political game by the party to get Bolton sacked.
‘But I apologise to him because my words and texts have been twisted out of context and put into the public domain by them. Now I just want to be left out of it.’
Ms Marney, from Kent, who boasts of being a glamour model, journalist and critic, has since been suspended by Ukip and dumped by Bolton over her racist texts about Prince Harry’s fiancée, Meghan Markle.
Left, Ms Marney with Bolton at Christmas and right, outside her home in Kent after the racist text scandal broke
Bolton (pictured, on Good Morning Britain) dumped his girlfriend after her racist remarks emerged
Ms Marney sent these racist texts calling Prince Harry’s fiance Meghan Markle a ‘dumb little commoner’
Mr Gilmour says Ukip party members tried to dig up dirt on Bolton when the former Army officer announced he had left the mother of his two young children, 42-year-old Tatiana Smurova, for Ms Marney, whom he met shortly before Christmas.
As background, he sent them damning messages from his former girlfriend.
Mr Gilmour, who lives in Australia, alleged that he was then contacted out of the blue by an angry Bolton who used menacing threats to cover up his shamed mistress’s sickening messages.
Father-of-three Bolton warned him: ‘You are so far out of your depth here. You are playing with Fire’.
The married Ukip boss added: ‘It’s a shame you were talked into releasing the other messages you received from Jo. Why did you do that?’
Mr Gilmour, pictured, with his famous cousin, said he leaked the messages to Ukip plotters because he wanted the public to know how’manipulative and unpredictable’ Ms Marney was
Left, Ms Marney poses for a photo with Tom Jones at a party and right, with Patrick Gilmour when they were dating
Gilmour replied: ‘If I tell you why will you promise not to basically make my life agony? Not going to lie, you scare me.’
Mr Bolton then told him: ‘If you tell me yes, but more so if you promise not to do this again. Then I will leave you alone’.
The Ukip boss also demanded the former boyfriend delete screenshots of Marney’s rants, and threatened him with legal action if he didn’t.
Mr Gilmour, who dated Marney for 18 months until last year, said today when contacted by MailOnline that the messages from his former girlfriend were disgusting.
He added: ‘I was shocked when Henry emailed me. I wasn’t expecting that because I didn’t know that the people I was talking to would reveal me as the source of the messages.
‘I regret sending them now and feel like I’ve been dragged into a political tug of war.’
Ms Marney (right) apologised at the weekend after messages emerged where she said Prince Harry’s ‘black American’ fiancee will ‘taint’ the Royal Family
He went on: ‘But Jo is not a nice person. She is powerful and has threatened and intimated me. She has a very bad temper and her mood can switch in an instant. She could fly into a rage over something simple like me not wanting to watch a film.
‘The messages she sent me about raping babies are disgusting. I was appalled even though they were a joke.’
Ms Marney apologised at the weekend after messages emerged where she said Prince Harry’s ‘black American’ fiancee will ‘taint’ the Royal Family with ‘her seed’ and pave the way for a ‘black king’.
She also said that she would never have sex with ‘a negro’ because they are ‘ugly’.
It came as Bolton is due to face a crunch meeting over his own future with Ukip following outrage over the relationship.
In Ms Marney’s messages, which she sent to a male friend just three weeks before starting her relationship with Mr Bolton, she sneered at Harry’s engagement to Los Angeles-born Markle – who will marry Harry on May 19 – on the grounds that she is a ‘black American’
Ms Marney (left, with Bolton and right), from Kent, boasts of being a glamour model, journalist and critic, has since been suspended by Ukip
She also described Ms Markle, whose mother is black and whose father is white, as ‘a scrubber’ and a ‘gender equality t***’ who is ‘obsessed with race’ and a ‘dumb little commoner’.
After being confronted with her texts, Ms Marney apologised for her comments which she claimed had been ‘taken out of context’.
In a statement, she said: ‘I apologise unreservedly for the shocking language I used. The opinions I expressed were deliberately exaggerated in order to make a point and have, to an extent, been taken out of context. Yet I fully recognise the offence they have caused.
‘No offence was intended and, again, I apologise unreservedly for any such offence or hurt that my messages have caused to members of the public, members of Ukip my friends, family and loved ones.
‘I have disappointed them all and let myself down. I cannot sufficiently express my regret and sadness at having done so.’