Misplaced Credibility

"[Carl] Beech caused unimaginable distress to the men he falsely accused and all the families caught up in his deception. Many of the accused were dead and unable to defend themselves."
"Beech's actions betray true victims, who should never be afraid of coming forward to reveal abuse."
Liz Reid, Crown Prosecution Service, Newcastle Crown Court, Britain, July 2019

"Nick [pseudonym of Carl Beech] has been spoken to by experienced officers from the child abuse team and from the murder investigation team and they and I believe what Nick is saying is credible and true."
Det.Supt.Kenney McDonald, Operation Midland, 2012

"[I have seen] clear intelligence suggesting a powerful pedophile network linked to Parliament and No.10 [Downing Street]."
M.P. Tom Watson, Labour, House of Commons, 2012

"At one stage during questioning, Lord Bramall, [age 92], who took part in the D-Day landings, was asked if he could swim, as if this might prove his involvement in a pool sex party, that was supposed to have taken place."
"The following day [August 2015], in a brave but risky move, Mr. Proctor [Harvey Proctor, M.P.] went public, and at an extraordinary news conference, held at a hotel opposite Scotland Yard, revealed exactly what he and the other VIPs had been accused of."
The Daily Telegraph

Carl Beech/Facebook

Operation Midland was launched in 2012 in Great Britain on the strength of shocking charges made by a man who divulged to detectives the purported abuse he had suffered as a child at military locations and apartments located close to Whitehall. A gang of pedophiles represented by trusted public figures in parliament had murdered three young boys in the 70s and 80s. This was a man whose name is Carl Beech, who named some of the people he accused of abusing him and other young people.

Edward Heath, a former Tory prime minister was among those named, along with Leon Brittan, a former Cabinet minister; former army chief Edwin Bramble; Maurice Oldfield, ex-head of MI6; Harvey Proctor M.P., along with other lawmakers and military figures of popular recognition. At the time that these accusations were being heard and recorded by police, they were given the stamp of believability, police speaking of them as "credible and true".

It might have been thought that the police would be somewhat less credulous at hearing pretty unbelievable narratives of child molestation by important public figures at the highest echelons of government and the military, but such was not the case. "He is a man who has done enormous damage to totally innocent people who have done him no harm at all. An evil man", said D-Day veteran, former general Hugh Beach, who was among those falsely accused.

Himself the son of a military family, he claimed his stepfather, a major, had repeatedly raped him. The claims extended to his step-father making him available to senior government and military figures to sexually abuse him as a boy. On military bases he along with other young boys suffered torture as well as sexual abuse, he claimed.

London's Metropolitan Police force evidently experienced no difficulty in giving their full support to the plethora of lies exuded by the man, launching the investigation that would ruin so many lives. Public figures held in admiration and trust suddenly found themselves considered demonic figures of child molestation, their reputations gone, their public positions evaporated, fighting for what they had so abruptly lost in the tide of public opinion led by the trusted police force.

Then it was discovered by detectives, years after he had engineered the chaotic shambles of respected men's lives, that this former pediatric nurse, school governor, hospital inspector was a hidden pedophile. He had claimed compensation of 22,000 pounds identifying himself as a child victim of the notorious Jimmy Savile the BBC entertainer who enjoyed years of predatory assaults on helpless children. Only after his death was it discovered that the popular, trusted and admired man had ruined vulnerable lives.

Beech's was not among them. Beech was a man who caused former cabinet minister Leon Brittan to die of cancer before it could be revealed that the charges against him were false. Even after his death in 2015 the investigation resulted in his home being raided. Eventually police were condemned for having immediately accepted the allegations against men of good repute that slandered them and shredded their reputations, giving credence where none was due.

Carl Beech was revealed to be a pedophile when child abuse images were discovered on his computer. He admitted to four counts of producing indecent images of children, one count of possessing indecent images, and one count of voyeurism. MP Harvey Proctor spoke of Operation Midland as "a truly disgraceful chapter in the history of British policing". The decision to rubber-stamp Beech's claims, to tarnish the reputations of leading politicians and military figures, to raid their homes, was indefensible.

Gloucestershire Police

It took five years to expose Beech now 51, as a shameless fantasist. Because of his blatant lies, 92-year-old Lord Bramall's home was raided by no fewer than twenty police officers. Once the head of the British army, the ignominy of child predator was pasted to his name, his home raided, his reputation raked through the muck of guilt and speculation.

MP Harvey Proctor was forced to stand in the House of Commons to reveal he had been accused of pedophilia, torture and that he had strangled a 12-year-old boy to death. 

"[The case was] unlike any other I have seen in my career."
"He is not a fantasist, as some people have described him, nor is he a victim of abuse where there was insufficient evidence to prosecute."
"[He was a] very prolific and manipulative liar [who] thrived on being in the limelight.".
"He would quite happily have seen innocent men arrested and face the full weight of the law."
Jenny Hopkins, head, special crime and counter-terrorism, Crown Prosecution Service, London