Met police paid another force nearly £1m to help investigate fantasist Carl Beech
Daily MailThe Metropolitan Police claims to have spent £2.5 million looking into Carl Beech's allegations that he had been sadistically raped and abused by famous Westminster figures in the 1970s and 1980s The Metropolitan Police paid another force nearly £1million to help investigate fanatasist Carl Beech who invented claims the he was a victim of a VIP paedophile ring. The Metropolitan Police claims to have spent £2.5 million looking into Carl Beech's allegations that he had been sadistically raped and abused by famous Westminster figures in the 1970s and 1980s, before the case collapsed in 2016. The claims were totally invented Among those the former nurse falsely accused were 91-year-old Normandy veteran Field Marshal Lord Bramall, the late Lord Brittan and former Tory MP Harvey Proctor, all of whom had their homes raided in the Metropolitan Police's Operation Midland investigation. Deputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House said: 'The impact of Carl Beech's false allegations and the Operation Midland investigation on many people has been truly dreadful and damaging to them and their families.
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