I’m being censored by BBC, rages Proctor
HARVEY Proctor has accused the BBC of censoring his attempts to criticise the way the corporation interviewed the VIP child abuse fantasist ‘Nick’.
The former Tory MP claimed he was blocked from fully answering a question while being interviewed on the Victoria Derbyshire programme yesterday.
In an astonishing broadside on live TV, Mr Proctor said: ‘This is censorship by the BBC. This is censorship on the BBC.’
He was invited on to the BBC2 show to discuss the widespread calls for a criminal investigation into Scotland Yard’s bungled inquiry into Nick.
While being interviewed by presenter Victoria Fritz, Mr Proctor accused BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds of trying to ‘manufacture news’.
The former MP criticised the reporter’s 2014 interview of Nick, whose real name is Carl Beech. Mr Proctor said: ‘The last time I was on this programme, you had your home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds in the studio and he got things wrong then.
‘Tom Symonds tried to manufacture news. He showed Mr Beech photographs of children I am supposed to have murdered. That is not proper journalism.’
Mr Proctor – who was accused of the rape, torture and murder of two children by Beech – then asked if he could continue his assessment of Mr Symonds.
But Mrs Fritz cut him off and said: ‘I’m going to have to stop you there if I may...’ Mr Proctor responded: ‘This is censorship. I’m on a live programme and you are not allowing me to give a correct answer to your question.
‘You’re prepared to repeat the statement that the BBC hierarchy have put forward in their defence without allowing me the privilege and the honour of criticising the BBC. Censorship by the BBC, I hope everyone takes note of that.’
Mrs Fritz insisted that the corporation reported serious allegations which were the basis of a police investigation and which the police described as ‘credible and true’. She added: ‘Carl Beech has since been exposed as a fantasist and serial liar, not least by an investigation by the BBC’s own Panorama team.’