Carl Beech (pictured outside court in March) claims he was raped by his step-father who then passed him on to the Westminster paedophile ring, he claimed today
The ‘fantasist’ accused of inventing a Westminster VIP paedophile ring who killed three boys has today claimed his alleged abuse began when he was raped by his Army Major step-father in a safari park toilet.
Carl Beech – who was called ‘Nick’ by police – faces 12 charges of perverting justice but insists accounts of abuse by former PM Ted Heath, ex-Home Secretary Leon Brittan, former head of UK land forces Lord Bramall and retired Tory MP Harvey Proctor are all genuine.
The 51-year-old father of one, former nurse and £45,000-a-year NHS care quality inspector, is also accused of fraud by falsely claiming £22,000 in criminal injuries compensation.
Collingwood Thompson, QC, defending Beech at Newcastle Crown Court, today began by asking him about his childhood and his step-father Major Raymond Beech, who he accused of abusing him.
He told the jury his stepfather raped him in a toilet at a wildlife park during a family day out with another boy and his own stepfather.
Giving evidence for the first time today he said: ‘I didn’t know what was happening, I tried to struggle, I tried to scream and I couldn’t.’
Beech told Collingwood Thompson QC, defending, that his stepfather had his hand over his mouth and nose.
Carl Beech, pictured aged 10, when he claimed that he was sexually abused for the first time
Carl Beech, 51, told detectives in interviews (pictured) that he had been passed around parties attended by powerful men, to be sexually abused
Beech claimed it was through Major Ray Beech that he was introduced to the paedophile gang who he claims raped and abused him and murdered three boys in front of him in the late 70s and early 1980s.
Beech, wearing a blue jumper and beige chinos, said his step-father ‘was just nasty, drank a lot and didn’t particularly like me other than for hurting me’.
Describing an alleged attack he said: ‘The one I first remember was when he tried to kiss me in the living room.
‘When I pulled away he was not happy at all and that is the first time I can remember him physically hitting me. He hit me on the side of the head and in the stomach.’
He said Major Beech’s violence and sexual abuse escalated as he drank more.
‘When he’d been drinking he used to hit more and would try to do other things. If he had been drinking a lot he couldn’t do what he wanted and would take that out on me as well’, he said.
He was asked by Mr Thompson what ‘other things’ meant and replied: ‘Raping me.’
He went on to say the first time he was raped by his step-father was at a wildlife park at Burford in Oxfordshire.
Beech claimed the paedophile group included former Prime Minister Edward Heath (left), ex-Home Secretary Leon Brittan (right) and retired army chief Field Marshal Lord Bramall
He recounted his childhood at Wilton, Wiltshire, after his mother Rev. Charmian Beech met and married Major Beech, who worked at Erskine Barracks, the home of UK Land Forces.
Beech said: ‘I was only a few months old when my natural father left. I have vague recollections of meeting my step-father before we moved into his house for me it was quite an exciting time having a father but other than that I have little memory of things before that.
‘I got a slap here and a slap there but nothing untoward I suppose.
‘I must have been at the wedding of my mother and my step father but I have little recollection of it.
‘His two older children, David and Victoria, were away but the younger child Emma was in the house. I didn’t get on with his children very well, I wasn’t welcomed into the household.
‘I don’t remember much from the older two, the younger one, I wouldn’t say went out of her way to get me into trouble with my step-father but that’s how it felt.
‘They would put drawing pins around my bed so I would tread on them when I got up in the night.’
The prosecution case came to an end on Tuesday after seven weeks of evidence at Newcastle Crown Court.
The court has heard that Beech made 20 hours of allegations in interviews with the the Metropolitan Police who launched the £2m Operation Midland based on his evidence, which they described as ‘credible and true.’
Previously the trial 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.
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