Boy who enjoyed a privileged childhood in leafy suburbia
WHILE fraud Carl Beech told the world he had seen unimaginable horrors in his childhood, the truth is he had a very privileged upbringing.
As an only child living in leafy Kingston-upon-Thames in Southwest London, he was given his own horse and a dog.
There were summer holidays in Malta and Tunisia, a ski trip to Austria when he was 15 and he and his mother Charmian, an ex-nurse who became a vicar, formed a tight bond.
He claimed the abuse began after her brief marriage to his stepfather, the late Major Ray Beech. They parted after four months in 1976 due to his drunken domestic violence.
Beech, 51, claimed in adulthood his stepfather, who retired from the Army on health grounds, raped him and passed him on to his superiors to be exploited by paedophiles at the top of British society.
Many observers now doubt that accusation of abuse by his stepfather, given the way he subsequently changed his story in blogs.
Beech told police the alleged VIP paedophiles “The Ring” punished him when he broke their instruction not to have school friends by murdering a boy at his school. But Northumbria Police found two friends from the Tudor School in Kingston who recalled happily spending time in the library with him.
Steven White said under oath. “I think we bonded. We were all probably socially awkward, spending time in the library and talking.” Jonathon Budd remembered him as “a good kid” who his parents liked.
Beech became a paediatric nurse, working at children’s hospitals in Birmingham and London, before becoming an NHS manager and a Care Quality Commission inspector.
He married now ex-wife Dawn, a
nurse, and they had a son. Beech began writing online about child sex abuse he claimed to have suffered. He had 57 blogs and wrote a fictitious memoir, full of horrifying detail, which left observers convinced he was actually inspired by his own perverted desires.
Police found he had downloaded indecent material. He also set up a camera to film a boy using a toilet and took covert photos of boys.After he was charged with making indecent images, voyeurism and perverting justice he went on the run to Sweden where police found him.