Ex-charity care worker guilty of VIP abuse lies
Aformer NSPCC volunteer who lied about being abused by a murderous VIP Westminster paedophile ring is facing a lengthy jail sentence after he was convicted of perverting the course of justice and fraud.
Carl Beech’s malicious, repeated and determined deceit ruined the reputations of those he accused and led the Metropolitan Police to raid the homes of 91-year-old Normandy veteran Field Marshall Lord Bramall, the late Lord Brittan and former Tory MP Harvey Proctor.
Mr Proctor called the episode
“a truly disgraceful chapter in the history of British policing”.
The force’s £2m Operation Midland into the lurid allegations ended without making a single arrest.
Beech, originally from Wrexham, claimed his late stepfather, an Army major, raped him, then passed him on to generals to be tortured at military bases and sadistically sexually abused by other Establishment figures in the 1970s and 1980s.
He named former prime minister Sir Edward Heath, Mr Proctor, disgraced TV star Jimmy Savile, head of MI5 Sir Michael Hanley and MI6 boss Sir Maurice Oldfield among the gang. He also claimed three boys were murdered by the ring.
A jury at Newcastle Crown Court rejected Beech’s allegations and yesterday convicted him of 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud, relating to a £22,000 criminal injuries payout he falsely claimed for being raped by Savile.
Sentencing has provisionally been set for Friday.