Paedophile’s lies about my father ‘make me sick’
SENIOR RABBI to Reform Judaism Laura Janner-Klausner has said it “makes me sick” to have seen her late father subjected to false allegations of murder and sexual offences, after his accuser was convicted of lying to the police.
Rabbi Janner-Klausner said the allegations made by Carl Beech, 51 — once only known as “Nick” — about the existence of a VIP paedophile ring in Westminster had had “an enormous impact” on the family.
Beech accused security chiefs and senior politicians — including Lord Janner, who died three years ago, and former Home Secretary Lord Brittan, who died in 2015 — of being involved in sadistic sexual abuse. But the Met Police — which raided homes and interviewed alleged suspects as part of the £2m Operation Midland — did not make a single arrest, jurors at Newcastle Crown Court heard.
Beech had been convicted on paedophilia charges, having accessed images of child abuse and covertly filmed a teenage boy.
Beech was convicted on Monday of 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud. He will be sentenced today.
“Even now seeing my dad’s name attached to his and the false allegations made makes me sick. It put my mental health under huge strain,” said Rabbi Janner-Klausner.
“Luckily for us dad skilled us up to respond to this kind of extreme situation. He gave us the skills of resilience and inner strength, so we have coped.”
In 2017, six men who alleged Lord Janner abused them dropped a civil case against his estate.
For Rabbi JannerKlausner, the unmasking of Beech, whose fraud conviction related to a £22,000 criminal injuries payout he falsely claimed for being raped by Jimmy Savile, showed there was “a problem with the British justice system”.
“We have a system where people are believed instantly before the evidence is examined instead of being listened to compassionately and the allegations properly investigated.”
Lord Janner died shortly after judge ruled his dementia left him unfit to stand trial over alleged child sex abuse offences.
Rabbi Janner-Klausner said the news about Beech would help to “re calibrate the moral panic around these sorts of allegations.” Individuals who accused her father of sexual assault and tried to get compensation from the family “dropped their claims when we said we would go to court. This is the problem with naming people when they are accused, because it is what compensation lawyers rely on.” Her brother, Daniel Janner QC, is assisting pop singer Sir Cliff Richard in a campaign to “re-balance the legal system” by securing anonymity for sexual offence suspects before they are charged. Rabbi Janner-Klausner said the family was also concerned that the ongoing Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales was continuing to explore a dedicated investigative strand into Lord Janner and will hear from other accusers with no “crossexamination”.
This put my mental health under huge strain’