Man who sparked VIP paedophile ring inquiry appears in court

Carl Beech pleads not guilty to perverting course of justice after claiming he was abused by establishment figures

A man accused of making false allegations that sparked a multimillion pound police investigation into a VIP paedophile ring in Westminster has pleaded not guilty to perverting the course of justice and fraud.

Carl Beech, 51, told police as a child he was among victims of a group of establishment figures – including senior politicians and military figures – who he alleged raped and murdered boys in the 1970s and 1980s, triggering a £2.5m Scotland Yard inquiry, Operation Midland, which shut in 2016 without any arrests.

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