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'''Carl Beech''' was born '''Carl Stephen Gass''' in 1968. Following his parents' separation, his mother Charmian married Major [[Raymond Beech]] in 1976, a soldier based in Wiltshire. Carl took his stepfather's surname. On 22 July 2019, Carl Beech was found guilty of making false allegations of murder and child sexual abuse against a string of public figures<ref>''[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49074879 "Carl Beech trial: 'VIP abuse' accuser guilty of false claims"]''</ref> Four days later on 26 July 2019, Beech was jailed for 18 years.
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'''Carl Beech''' was born '''Carl Stephen Gass''' in 1968. Following his parents' separation, his mother Charmian married Major Raymond Beech in 1976, a soldier based in Wiltshire, he took his stepfather's surname.
  
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==''Operation Midland''==
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On 22 July 2019, Carl Beech was found guilty of making false allegations of murder and child sexual abuse against a string of public figures and was jailed for 18 years.<ref>''[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49074879 "Carl Beech trial: 'VIP abuse' accuser guilty of false claims"]''</ref>
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''Operation Midland'' arose from the allegations of claims Carl Beech (then referred to as 'Nick'),<ref>{{cite news|title=Carl Beech: Accuser of 'VIP paedophile ring' named|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46431818 |accessdate=3 December 2018 |work=BBC News |date=3 December 2018}}</ref> a man aged in his 40s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tory MP 'murdered' boy at orgy, abuse victim claims |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11234001/Tory-MP-murdered-boy-at-orgy-abuse-victim-claims.html |first=Martin |last=Evans |accessdate=15 November 2014 |work=The Daily Telegraph |place=London |date=15 November 2014}}</ref>
 
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Beech was contacted by [[Exaro]], and sold his story.<ref>[https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/23/carl-beech-and-his-enablers/ "Carl Beech and his enablers"]</ref> Exaro then sold stories to newspapers and [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mark-conrad-947a6a45 Mark Conrad,] a reporter from Exaro, accompanied him to an early meeting with detectives, as an introductory measure, following a request by the [[Metropolitan Police]] agreed to by Beech.<ref>{{cite news |title=Operation Midland: how the Met lost its way|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/21/operation-midland-met-police-paedophile-ring|first1=Rajeev|last1=Syal|first2=Sandra|last2=Laville|accessdate=16 October 2016|work=The Guardian|place=London|date=21 March 2016}}</ref>
 
  
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==Claims of physical and sexual abuse==
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==Claims of abuse and murder==
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Carl Beech claimed that his stepfather was the first to physically and sexually abuse him and that he was subsequently passed to other figures of authority during his childhood from 1975 to 1984. Beech named 12 people, including the former Members of Parliament [[Harvey Proctor]] and [[Greville Janner]], the former [[Home Secretary]] [[Leon Brittan]], the former [[UK Prime Minister]] [[Edward Heath]], the former [[Chief of the Defence Staff]] [[Edwin Bramall]], the former [[Director of the Secret Intelligence Service]] [[Maurice Oldfield]], and the former [[Director-General of MI5]] [[Michael Hanley]]. Beech falsely claimed that he was abused at a number of places including [[Dolphin Square]], the [[Carlton Club]], and various other places in the Home Counties.{{which}} Beech also claimed that the group murdered three children: two for sexual pleasure, and a third to intimidate the others. [[Harvey Proctor|Proctor]]'s solicitors told him that Beech stated that he had seen Proctor repeatedly stab a 12-year-old boy before strangling him to death, and that he himself had been raped by Harvey Proctor.
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Carl Beech first went to the police in December 2012 in the wake of the [[Jimmy Savile]] scandal, claiming to have been abused by his late stepfather, Raymond Beech, who was a Major in the Army, and by [[Jimmy Savile]]. Wiltshire Police looked at the allegations but concluded there was little could be done because the man he was accusing was dead.
  
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==="Credible and true" allegations===
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In July 2014, a journalist from [[Exaro]] introduced Labour MP [[Tom Watson]] to Carl Beech, who had made a number of allegations about Conservative politician and former [[European Commissioner]] [[Leon Brittan|Lord Brittan]] and others of abuse. Watson wrote to the [[Director of Public Prosecutions]] to reopen a separate rape investigation into Lord Brittan that police had previously closed after finding no evidence to support the claim and "glaring inconsistencies" in the accuser's account. Police ultimately decided that Brittan would face no further action but he was never told he would not be charged before his death in January 2015. After Brittan's death, [[Tom Watson]] wrote a newspaper column in which he quoted Beech, calling Brittan "as close to evil as a human being could get".<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/20/tom-watson-written-apology-leon-brittan-widow "Tom Watson to issue written apology to Leon Brittan's widow"]''</ref>
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The officer leading the investigation, Detective Superintendent [[Kenny McDonald]], said in December 2014 that experienced officers had concluded that the allegations were "credible and true".<ref>{{cite news |last=Evans |first=Martin |title='I witnessed Tory MP strangle child', claims abuse victim |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11301666/I-witnessed-Tory-MP-strangle-child-claims-abuse-victim.html |accessdate=2 January 2015 |work=The Daily Telegraph |place=London |date=18 December 2014}}</ref> McDonald was later criticised for the statement, and it was retracted. The public nature of the investigation was modelled on the successful investigations of ''[[Operation Yewtree]]'', but no further witnesses came forward.{{cn}}
 
  
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[[Harvey Proctor|Proctor]] detailed Beech's claims in public for the first time at a press conference, and also named his fellow accused. In September 2015 the [[Metropolitan Police]] said that they should never have asserted that "Nick"'s claims were true. [[Harvey Proctor|Proctor]] and Bramall were subsequently interviewed under caution but were never arrested, and nothing was found in any police searches to support Beech's allegations.{{cn}} Bramall and [[Harvey Proctor|Proctor]] both wanted Beech investigated for wasting police time. [[Leon Brittan|Brittan]] subsequently died before the inquiry concluded that there was no credible case against him. Nonetheless, police raided [[Leon Brittan|Brittan]]'s home six weeks after his death and took computers, hard drives and papers without informing his widow of the reasons.
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Meanwhile, Carl Beech told [[Scotland Yard]] he and other boys had been raped and abused by an organised gang which included Sir [[Edward Heath]], the former Prime Minister; [[Leon Brittan|Lord Brittan]], the former Home Secretary; [[Harvey Proctor]], the former Tory MP; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Bramall Lord Bramall,] the former head of the Army; [[Greville Janner]], the former Labour MP; [[Maurice Oldfield]], the former head of [[MI6]]; [[Michael Hanley]], the former director of [[MI5]]; General Sir [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Beach Hugh Beach] and Field Marshal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Gibbs Roland Gibbs.] Beech also claimed to have been abused by [[John J Louis Jr]], the former [[US]] ambassador to Britain as well as a number of unnamed [[Saudi]] diplomats.
  
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[[Zac Goldsmith]] alleged in a parliamentary speech that [[Leon Brittan|Brittan]] was an abuser. ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote in March 2016 that "Both politicians have been accused of abusing their positions to influence the police inquiries and cast aspersions upon alleged abusers".
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Carl Beech not only alleged abuse but also told police he had witnessed the group murder three boys in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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==Operation Midland==
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Operation Midland was conducted by the [[Metropolitan Police]] in London from November 2014 to March 2016 into the claims of historic child sexual abuse and homicide made by Carl Beech (then referred to as 'Nick').<ref>''[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46431818 "Carl Beech: Accuser of 'VIP paedophile ring' named"]''</ref><ref>''[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11234001/Tory-MP-murdered-boy-at-orgy-abuse-victim-claims.html "Tory MP 'murdered' boy at orgy, abuse victim claims"]''</ref>
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Carl Beech was contacted by [[Exaro]], and sold his story.<ref>''[https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/23/carl-beech-and-his-enablers/ "Carl Beech and his enablers"]''</ref> [[Exaro]]'s reporter [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mark-conrad-947a6a45 Mark Conrad] accompanied him to an early meeting with detectives, as an introductory measure, following a request by the [[Metropolitan Police]] agreed to by Beech.<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/21/operation-midland-met-police-paedophile-ring "Operation Midland: how the Met lost its way]''</ref>
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The officer leading Operation Midland, Detective Superintendent [[Kenny McDonald]], said in December 2014 that experienced officers had concluded that the allegations were "credible and true".<ref>''[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11301666/I-witnessed-Tory-MP-strangle-child-claims-abuse-victim.html "'I witnessed Tory MP strangle child', claims abuse victim"]''</ref> McDonald was later criticised for the statement, and it was retracted.
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Carl Beech claimed that the abuse had taken place at numerous venues, including Dolphin Square; Military Bases including Imber, St David’s Barracks, Erskine Barracks, Edward Heath’s house in Wilton Street, London and his yacht. Other venues Beech named included Eccleston Square; Ponsonby Terrace; Westminster Gardens; Cambridge Street; the Carlton Club; Elm Guest House; Stowe School; Richmond Park; Heathrow Airport; London Zoo; Queen’s Ice Rink and Brighton.
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[[Harvey Proctor|Proctor]] detailed Beech's claims in public for the first time at a press conference, and also named his fellow accused. In September 2015 the [[Metropolitan Police]] said that they should never have asserted that "Nick"'s claims were true. [[Harvey Proctor|Proctor]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Bramall Lord Bramall] were subsequently interviewed under caution but not arrested.
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Bramall Lord Bramall] and [[Harvey Proctor]] both wanted Beech investigated for wasting police time.<ref>''[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/14/man-known-nick-invented-heinous-sex-abuse-allegations-against/ "Man known as 'Nick' filmed crying as he falsely tells police of murdered schoolmate, Westminster VIP trial hears"]''</ref>
  
 
==Charges==
 
==Charges==
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After [[UK police]] failed to arrest anyone as a result of Beech's charges, he was himself charged.
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After [[UK police]] failed to arrest anyone as a result of Beech's accusations, he was himself charged.
  
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===Child pornography charges===
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===Child pornography===
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Beech originally denied making and possessing indecent images of children, but later admitted it. He was sentenced to 18 months for this charge.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49048972|title=Carl Beech: Liar, fraudster and paedophile|publisher=BBC News|date=23 July 2019|accessdate=23 July 2019}}</ref>
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Beech originally denied making and possessing indecent images of children, but later admitted it.<ref>''[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49048972 "Carl Beech: Liar, fraudster and paedophile"]''</ref>
  
 
===Perverting the course of justice===
 
===Perverting the course of justice===
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Regarding the Westminster [[VIPaedophile]] ring allegations, Beech plead not guilty to 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud, but on 22 July 2019, he was found guilty of them all, for which he was given 15 years and 18 months.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/22/nick-trial-carl-beech-found-guilty-making-westminster-vip-paedophile/|title=Carl Beech aka Nick found guilty of making up Westminster VIP paedophile ring |last=Evans|first=Martin|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|date=22 July 2019|accessdate=22 July 2019}}</ref>  
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Regarding the Westminster [[VIPaedophile]] ring allegations, Beech pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud, but on 22 July 2019 at Newcastle Crown Court,<ref>''[https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/vip-paedophile-ring-hoaxer-carl-16803728 "VIP paedophile ring hoaxer Carl Beech's staggering legal bill - which YOU paid for"]''</ref> he was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to 18 years in jail.<ref>''[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/22/nick-trial-carl-beech-found-guilty-making-westminster-vip-paedophile/ "Carl Beech aka Nick found guilty of making up Westminster VIP paedophile ring"]''</ref>
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==BBC documentary==
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In August 2020, BBC2 broadcast a documentary by Vanessa Engle entitled [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m22r "The Unbelievable Story of Carl Beech":]{{QB|Through footage from police interviews, contemporary media reports, Beech’s own blog posts at the time and interviews then and now with those involved, Engle’s latest documentary laid bare the phenomenon of the man who sparked a £2m police investigation. Beech’s allegations of childhood abuse in the 1970s and 80s by a [[VIPaedophile|paedophile ring]] comprising high-ranking members of the [[establishment]] was of course later unravelled as a hoax, apparently designed to secure him what eventually amounted to £22,000 in criminal injuries compensation.<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/aug/24/the-unbelievable-story-of-carl-beech-review-the-paedophile-ring-that-wasnt "The Unbelievable Story of Carl Beech review – the paedophile ring that wasn't"]''</ref>}}
 
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Revision as of 17:16, 27 August 2020

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BornCarl Stephen Gass
1968

Carl Beech was born Carl Stephen Gass in 1968. Following his parents' separation, his mother Charmian married Major Raymond Beech in 1976, a soldier based in Wiltshire, he took his stepfather's surname.

On 22 July 2019, Carl Beech was found guilty of making false allegations of murder and child sexual abuse against a string of public figures and was jailed for 18 years.[1]

Claims of abuse and murder

Carl Beech first went to the police in December 2012 in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, claiming to have been abused by his late stepfather, Raymond Beech, who was a Major in the Army, and by Jimmy Savile. Wiltshire Police looked at the allegations but concluded there was little could be done because the man he was accusing was dead.

In July 2014, a journalist from Exaro introduced Labour MP Tom Watson to Carl Beech, who had made a number of allegations about Conservative politician and former European Commissioner Lord Brittan and others of abuse. Watson wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions to reopen a separate rape investigation into Lord Brittan that police had previously closed after finding no evidence to support the claim and "glaring inconsistencies" in the accuser's account. Police ultimately decided that Brittan would face no further action but he was never told he would not be charged before his death in January 2015. After Brittan's death, Tom Watson wrote a newspaper column in which he quoted Beech, calling Brittan "as close to evil as a human being could get".[2]

Meanwhile, Carl Beech told Scotland Yard he and other boys had been raped and abused by an organised gang which included Sir Edward Heath, the former Prime Minister; Lord Brittan, the former Home Secretary; Harvey Proctor, the former Tory MP; Lord Bramall, the former head of the Army; Greville Janner, the former Labour MP; Maurice Oldfield, the former head of MI6; Michael Hanley, the former director of MI5; General Sir Hugh Beach and Field Marshal Roland Gibbs. Beech also claimed to have been abused by John J Louis Jr, the former US ambassador to Britain as well as a number of unnamed Saudi diplomats.

Carl Beech not only alleged abuse but also told police he had witnessed the group murder three boys in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Operation Midland

Operation Midland was conducted by the Metropolitan Police in London from November 2014 to March 2016 into the claims of historic child sexual abuse and homicide made by Carl Beech (then referred to as 'Nick').[3][4] Carl Beech was contacted by Exaro, and sold his story.[5] Exaro's reporter Mark Conrad accompanied him to an early meeting with detectives, as an introductory measure, following a request by the Metropolitan Police agreed to by Beech.[6]

The officer leading Operation Midland, Detective Superintendent Kenny McDonald, said in December 2014 that experienced officers had concluded that the allegations were "credible and true".[7] McDonald was later criticised for the statement, and it was retracted.

Carl Beech claimed that the abuse had taken place at numerous venues, including Dolphin Square; Military Bases including Imber, St David’s Barracks, Erskine Barracks, Edward Heath’s house in Wilton Street, London and his yacht. Other venues Beech named included Eccleston Square; Ponsonby Terrace; Westminster Gardens; Cambridge Street; the Carlton Club; Elm Guest House; Stowe School; Richmond Park; Heathrow Airport; London Zoo; Queen’s Ice Rink and Brighton.

Proctor detailed Beech's claims in public for the first time at a press conference, and also named his fellow accused. In September 2015 the Metropolitan Police said that they should never have asserted that "Nick"'s claims were true. Proctor and Lord Bramall were subsequently interviewed under caution but not arrested.

Lord Bramall and Harvey Proctor both wanted Beech investigated for wasting police time.[8]

Charges

After UK police failed to arrest anyone as a result of Beech's accusations, he was himself charged.

Child pornography

Beech originally denied making and possessing indecent images of children, but later admitted it.[9]

Perverting the course of justice

Regarding the Westminster VIPaedophile ring allegations, Beech pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud, but on 22 July 2019 at Newcastle Crown Court,[10] he was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to 18 years in jail.[11]

BBC documentary

In August 2020, BBC2 broadcast a documentary by Vanessa Engle entitled "The Unbelievable Story of Carl Beech":

Through footage from police interviews, contemporary media reports, Beech’s own blog posts at the time and interviews then and now with those involved, Engle’s latest documentary laid bare the phenomenon of the man who sparked a £2m police investigation. Beech’s allegations of childhood abuse in the 1970s and 80s by a paedophile ring comprising high-ranking members of the establishment was of course later unravelled as a hoax, apparently designed to secure him what eventually amounted to £22,000 in criminal injuries compensation.[12]

 

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Document:Epstein's Death Must Be the Start, not the End, of the Investigationblog post11 August 2019Craig MurrayIt is a great shame that in the UK, the Establishment has been able to characterise the falsifications of Carl Beech as discrediting the entire notion of historical child sexual abuse.
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References

  1. ↑ "Carl Beech trial: 'VIP abuse' accuser guilty of false claims"
  2. ↑ "Tom Watson to issue written apology to Leon Brittan's widow"
  3. ↑ "Carl Beech: Accuser of 'VIP paedophile ring' named"
  4. ↑ "Tory MP 'murdered' boy at orgy, abuse victim claims"
  5. ↑ "Carl Beech and his enablers"
  6. ↑ "Operation Midland: how the Met lost its way
  7. ↑ "'I witnessed Tory MP strangle child', claims abuse victim"
  8. ↑ "Man known as 'Nick' filmed crying as he falsely tells police of murdered schoolmate, Westminster VIP trial hears"
  9. ↑ "Carl Beech: Liar, fraudster and paedophile"
  10. ↑ "VIP paedophile ring hoaxer Carl Beech's staggering legal bill - which YOU paid for"
  11. ↑ "Carl Beech aka Nick found guilty of making up Westminster VIP paedophile ring"
  12. ↑ "The Unbelievable Story of Carl Beech review – the paedophile ring that wasn't"
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