Carl Beech: VIP paedophile ring fantasist jailed for 18 years for ‘malicious lies’
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Beech, who was known as “Nick” before a court allowed him to be named, triggered a series of police raids under the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Midland investigation. Jailing Beech at Newcastle Crown Court on Friday, Mr Justice James Goss called the former nurse an “intelligent, resourceful, manipulative and devious man”. ”He enjoyed the attention and celebrity.“ The prosecutor said Beech’s conduct “amounted to the cynical manipulation of the criminal justice system on an unprecedented scale”. Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House said that officers in the case had worked in good faith, and that an “internal debrief” would take place following Beech’s conviction to identify whether lessons could be learned.
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