‘Fantasist known as Nick’, 51, ‘makes new claim that he was flown to Paris on a private 747 to be abused as a boy’ as he faces jury accused of fabricating VIP sex ring
- Carl Beech, 51, told Newcastle Crown Court he had ‘lied in parts’ to police
- He then made a compensation claim based on those police interviews
- He said today he had been ‘flown to Paris on a private 747 to be abused’
- Beech was anonymised as ‘Nick’ when he alleged he had been sexually abused as a child by a VIP sex abuse ring based in Westminster
- He accused former PM Edward Heath, home secretary Leon Brittan, and heads of the Army, MI5, and MI6, and said former MP Harvey Proctor murdered children
Carl Beech, pictured in a police interview, admitted in court he lied to police
VIP sex ring ‘fantasist’ Carl Beech has claimed he was flown to Paris on a private Boeing 747 to be abused.
The claim, which he had not previously told detectives, came as Carl Beech was being cross-examined by the prosecution for a second day at Newcastle Crown Court.
In court the 51-year-old from Gloucester claimed that in addition to being abused at locations around the UK he was once flown to Paris, at an unknown time.
Prosecution QC Tony Badenoch asked him what kind of plane he was taken on.
Beech replied: ‘I haven’t reported that so I don’t want to say in open court.’
When pressed further he said: ‘It was a private 747, a private chartered jet to Paris.’
Mr Badenoch asked him who else was on the plane and he replied: ‘I don’t recall.’
Mr Badenoch then asked: ‘You got a Boeing 747 to Paris and you don’t recall… Because you are making it up as you go along?’
Beech replied: ‘No.’
Mr Badenoch asked why he had not mentioned the private flight to Paris in his 20 hours of interviews with the Metropolitan Police when he set out his claims about what happened to him as a boy.
Beech replied: ‘It was not something I was prepared to talk about.’
In an initial interview he told police members of The Group of abusers used codenames, but later he said he had known their names all along. He accused, among others, Edward Heath (L) Lord Bramall (C) and Harvey Proctor (R)
This morning under cross-examination Beech also admitted lying to police.
Under questioning about what he told a Wiltshire detective in 2012 – and then used as the basis of a claim the same year to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority – he accepted he gave officers the wrong name for a boy he claimed was a vital witness.
And he also withheld the names of the man who – by his account – subjected him to years of sexual abuse.
Beech was being grilled by Mr Badenoch when he admitted that his account to CICA had been partially based on lies.
Mr Badenoch said: ‘You were pointing the claims body in the direction of a police force you were actively misleading.’
Beech replied: ‘I was referring them to Wiltshire, the force I reported it to.’
Mr Badenock went on: ‘You had lied to them though hadn’t you?’
Beech responded: ‘I had lied in parts but not about the abuse overall.’
In the first interview at Swindon police station in 2012 Beech told Detective Constable Mark Lewis that he was abused by his step-father Major Ray Beech and the disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile.
Carl Beech, pictured in a court sketch, was accused of ‘making it up as [he] went along’
In 2014 his ‘extraordinary tale’ had grown to include abuse by former Prime Minister Edward Heath, former Home Secretary Leon Brittan, military top brass, the heads of the secret service and former MPs.
He also alleged he’d witnessed the murder of three boys by, amongst others, the ex Tory MP Harvey Proctor.
Beech accepted that he held all that information at the time he went to Wiltshire police but said he did not know the names of anyone else in the abusers he called The Group.
Mr Badenoch put to Beech that his testimony to the force contained a series of untruths, withheld information and ‘made positive statements to send the police in the wrong direction.’ To each proposition, Beech replied: ‘Yes.’
Mr Badenoch went on: ‘You asked for a crime number to make an application for criminal injuries compensation from that same detective who you had told a pack of lies.’
He added: ‘Your knew the crime you had been putting forward to Wiltshire police was full of falsehoods didn’t you?’
He replied: ‘On occasion, yes.’
At Newcastle Crown Court today, prosecuting QC Tony Badenoch (pictured) prompted Carl Beech to admit during cross-examination that he had lied to police
Carl Beech wrote a work of ‘sensationalised fiction’ about his alleged abuse, the court has heard.
Police found in his home a work entitled Too Many Secrets: Surviving a Child Sex Ring which was written by Beech under the pseudonym Charles Chassereau.
The work appeared to have been divided into chapters and was a version of the story that Beech had told Wiltshire and the Metropolitan Police.
However there were important differences in detail – including the inclusion of a boy called Aubrey, who Beech has admitted was never abused.
Beech described that as a mistake, to which Mr Badenoch told him: ‘You create so much fiction that you cannot recalled what you wrote last.’
The defendant denied that the document was ever intended to be published, saying: ‘It was just intended to help me, to help organise my thoughts.’
Mr Badenoch told him: ‘We have seen that you are able to write sensationalised fiction.’
He was later asked about body maps he produced for his counsellor Vicky Paterson detailing ‘a catalogue of horrendous injuries’ that he had suffered during his years of abuse.
He claimed he was bitten by an adder, burnt, stuck with needles and had wasps set upon him by The Group up to six times.
However pathologist Dr Jennifer Bolton was unable to find any sign of injuries in an examination she carried out last month.
Mr Badenoch said: ‘There is not a limb front or back that was not damaged, according to you, not a hand, toe or sole of foot not damaged in some way. And there is not a mark on you is there Mr Beech?’
He replied: ‘That is correct according to your pathologist.’
He added that he had not examined himself for injuries, saying: ‘It is not something I have looked at myself.’
Beech said ‘curiosity’ led him to take voyeuristic images of a boy using the toilet.
He told the court from the witness box that he regretted rigging up a camera to capture the footage of the child and storing the images.
Beech was asked why he did it and answered: ‘I think it was curiosity, I think that was part of it.
‘There are a lot of reasons I did this some of which I find hard to explain, it is not something I should have done, it was totally unacceptable.
‘It was to see perhaps if I did find gratification in that sort of thing.’
Mr Badenoch asked him: ‘And did you find sexual gratification in small boys?’ to which Beech responded: ‘No I did not.’
Timeline of Beech’s alleged falsehoods and the investigations they launched
2014/2015: Over more than 20 hours of recorded police interviews, Carl Beech makes lurid allegations of child rape and murder against senior Establishment figures including Ted Heath and Lord Brammall.
November 2014: The Met Police launch Operation Midland, which raids the homes of several elderly men looking for evidence to support Beech’s claims. A detective calls the accusations ‘credible and true’.
April 2015: D-Day veteran and former Army chief Lord Brammal interviewed.
June 2015: Former Tory MP Harvey Proctor, whom Beech accused of child murder, interviewed under caution.
March 2016: Beech notified no further action was to be taken in respect of the allegations he had made.
2016: Northumbria Police conclude Beech’s claims are ‘totally unfounded, hopelessly compromised, and irredeemably contradicted by other testimony’.
November 2, 2016: Police arrive to raid Beech’s home in Gloucester.
January 23, 2018: Beech got £60,000 as an early pension from the NHS
February 6, 2018: He travels to Calais preparing to flee to Sweden, where he buys a cabin in the woods and lives under a series of assumed identities, travelling hundreds of miles from city to city to stay on the run
October 1, 2018: He was tracked down by Swedish and British police and arrested in advance of a 20-hour train journey to Gothenburg booked in the name of ‘Samuel Karlsson’.
2018: A highly critical review of Operation Midland reports police ‘acted like they were searching for bodies’ during raids on homes.
2018: Beech pleads guilty to possessing indecent images of children, in a separate trial.
December 2018: restriction on reporting of Carl Beech’s real identity lifted.
May 2019: Beech goes on trial for perverting the course of justice.
Beech added: ‘The indecent images and child sex images is something I am completely disgusted with in myself, it is not something I should have done.
‘There may have been a few reasons for it in my subconscious of why I did it but I should not have done it. It is something I deeply regret and I let a lot of people down by doing it.’
The 51-year-old father of one, former nurse and £45,000-a-year NHS care quality inspector, is accused of 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one count of fraudulently claiming £22,000 in criminal injuries compensation.
Previously the trial at Newcastle Crown Court has been told Beech falsely claimed he had been raped by senior army officers and the disgraced television presenter Jimmy Savile.
He told the Metropolitan Police that around 15 men attended weekly abuse parties all over the South of England, including the late former Tory PM Ted Heath’s yacht, exclusive clubs and Dolphin Square, where many MPs lived near Westminster.
Beech also said former MI5 and MI6 heads tortured him by tipping spiders over him, gave him electric shocks and threw darts at him.
And he alleged the former Conservative Home Secretary Leon Brittan was also part of the ring. His claims led to the Met Police launching Operation Midland, which cost £2 million which was dropped after 16 months without anyone being charged.
It was then that Northumbria Police were called in to investigate Beech and unpicked his alleged web of deceit, the court has heard.
He denies 12 charges of perverting justice and one of fraud by falsely claiming £22,000 criminal injuries compensation.
When the Met asked Northumbria Police to investigate Beech in 2016, cops raided the rented three-bedroom house in Gloucester where he lived with his son.
They discovered on the drive a new £34,000 white Ford Mustang convertible which was bought with the compensation cash he received, it is alleged.
Beech later fled to Sweden but was tracked down and extradited back to the UK to face justice.
The trial continues.
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