A KENT barrister who prosecuted former Serb dictator Slobodan Milosevic is the first non-Croat to make a list of that country’s most influential people.

Sir Geoffrey Nice, from Adisham, has made the top 10 list for 2007 in Croatia’s weekly magazine, Globus.

Also on the list is mountain rescue dog Hasan, controversial soap actress Jelena Veljaca and head of the Zagreb stock exchange Roberto Motusic.

Sir Geoffrey, 61, said: “I am flattered.

“I think it is because I have given the truth about the trial since it finished and that has brought some welcome daylight to it.”

The London-born lawyer was knighted last year for services to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

He was appointed as a prosecutor there in 1998 and led proceedings against Mr Milosevic up to his death in March, 2006.

Prior to that he led the tribunal’s first prosecution of a politician, Bosnian Croat Dario Kordic – jailed for 25 years – and the trial of self-styled “Serbian Adolf” Goran Jelisic.

Sir Geoffrey contested the parliamentary seat of Dover for the SDP/Liberal Alliance in 1983 and 1987 and was given an honorary degree by Kent University in 2006.