Police aided VIP sex ring accuser’s £22,000 payout
POLICE helped a man who alleged he was the victim of a VIP paedophile gang claim £22,000 in compensation, a court heard.
Carl Beech, 51, had debts of £70,000 before he received the payout after racking up heavy credit card arrears, Newcastle Crown Court was told.
He went to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) on Boxing Day in 2013 after making his first complaints to Wiltshire Police.
Even though the case was classified “undetected” through a lack of evidence, Wiltshire Police told the CICA that there was “clearly a significant degree of psychological suffering” exhibited in his interviews.
In its decision to award the £22,000, the CICA repeated the exact words used by Wiltshire Police as its reason for agreeing to the payout.
In the 17 months it took to make the payment, Beech complained numerous times that he was being kept waiting. On two occasions the CICA apologised to him for keeping him waiting and brought his payment forward following calls and emails from him describing the service he was receiving as “disgraceful” and “appalling”.
One of the first things Beech did on receiving the payment was to put down a £9,750 deposit on a £34,000 white Ford Mustang convertible supercar from a local dealership.
He filled in a CICA claim form detailing the abuse he had suffered at the hands of his stepfather Raymond Beech and a gang of up to 20 other paedophiles, only one of whom he named – the disgraced TV star Jimmy Savile.
The claim form was then returned to Wiltshire Police by the CICA for their input.
The police responded: “Mr Beech describes being sexually assaulted by his stepfather, who is now deceased, and introduced to a paedophile ring involving around 20 individuals.
“Many of this gang raped him and sexually abused him for a number of years. The identities of these men is unknown.”
When asked about harm to Beech, the police said: “Non-physical. There was clearly a significant degree of psychology suffering displayed by the IP [injured party] during video interview.”
On March 6, 2015, the CICA wrote to Beech to tell him his application had been successful.
Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice by inventing his claims of abuse and one of fraud.
The trial continues.