Nick ‘told police that VIP sex ring kidnapped his dog’
‘They took her as a warning’
A VICAR’S son accused of false allegations about a murderous VIP paedophile ring told police his dog was kidnapped in a plot involving an ex-head of MI5, a court heard yesterday.
Carl Beech claimed former Security Service chief Sir Michael Hanley told him his pet was taken as a warning after he missed a meeting with his abusers when he was 13.
In interviews with the Metropolitan Police, Beech, 51, also said former prime minister Sir Edward Heath had to step in to prevent former Tory MP Harvey Proctor beating him.
He told officers Mr Proctor was a ‘sadistic’ member of the VIP ring, and had threatened to cut his genitals with a penknife, but was talked out of doing so by another gang member.
According to Beech, who was previously known by the pseudonym ‘Nick’, Mr Proctor then gave him the knife, saying he would ‘not be so lucky’ next time.
In footage of a police interview with the father of one in October 2014, he produced the penknife and handed it to a detective, saying he had kept it in a box since.
The allegations were among child sex and murder claims he made to police in 2014, prompting Scotland Yard to begin a 16month, £2million investigation that closed without any arrests or charges in March 2016.
In the first weeks of the investigation in December 2014, a senior officer publicly called Beech’s accusations as ‘credible and true’.
But at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday, where Beech faces accusations of making false claims against VIPs including senior politicians and military and intelligence chiefs, prosecutors insist they were ‘in fact incredible and untrue’.
The former Care Quality Commission inspector and nurse from Gloucester, denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one count of fraud.
In footage of a police interview in October 2014, Beech told Detective Sergeant James Townly how his dog was kidnapped by his abusers.
He claimed the pet vanished for five days, and he was approached by a man called Michael, who told him the dog had been taken as a warning. Beech later identified Michael as Sir Michael Hanley, the former head of MI5, whom he said was one member of ‘The Group’, his name for the high-level officials he claimed molested him in the Seventies and Eighties.
Beech told DS Townly that his dog, Heron, disappeared while out with his mother in Kingston upon Thames, south-west London.
Beech said: ‘She just vanished, she told me she was gone and I was absolutely devastated.
‘We went out looking and couldn’t find her. Mum had to force me back home because I would not leave.
‘The next day, or a day after, Michael collared me outside school. He did not have her in the car, but he said he had Heron.
‘ They took her as a warning because I was not to forget. They took her for five days and let her go. I had to pick her up from a police station at Surbiton, I think it was.
‘It was because I had forgotten to be somewhere, to be picked up. It was not like me to forget.’
The trial has heard that he falsely claimed he saw three boys murdered by a paedophile ring including Mr Proctor, Sir Edward and exhome secretary Leon Brittan, plus former heads of MI5 and MI6. He also said that ex-Armed Forces chief, Lord Bramall, abused him.
Beech claimed in an interview that Mr Proctor was the most violent. He said: ‘He had a little penknife, he wanted to cut my genitals, he was stopped by one of the others.
‘He was so angry, he did not like being told what to do. He gave me that knife as he left. He put it in my trousers and said, “Next time you will not be so lucky”.’
Beech also explained why he did not give the full story when he was interviewed by Wiltshire Police in 2012, claiming he was only abused by his stepfather Major Raymond Beech and TV star Jimmy Savile.
He said counselling sessions gave him the confidence to tell the entire story to Scotland Yard.
The trial continues.