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Carl Beech: The liar who made false claims of a VIP Child Abuse ring ordered to pay almost £24,000

carl beech the liar who made false claims of a vip child abuse ring ordered to pay almost 24 000
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The man who made false claims of a VIP child abuse ring and received compensation for his lies has today been ordered to pay £23,960.

Carl Beech, 52, claimed that he was among many victims of high-profile establishment figures who raped and murdered children in the 1970s and 1980s.

Telling police he had been transported to ‘sex parties’ as a child where he claimed to have suffered sadistic abuse at the hands of a VIP ‘group’, Beech’s lies resulted in a £2million investigation.

Despite a complete lack of evidence supporting Beech’s claims, he continued to maintain that his account was true throughout his trial.

However, the CPS put forward extensive evidence to dismantle Beech’s lies and fabrications and prove that the allegations were absolutely false.
July 2019, he was convicted of 12 counts of perverting the course of justice as well as one count of fraud for taking money to compensate him for abuse that never happened.

Today at Sheffield Crown Court, Beech has been ordered to pay £23,960 within three months or face an additional year in prison.

Adrian Phillips of the CPS said: “The compensation money given to Beech was meant to support him following the extensive, sustained torture by high profile people that he made up and described to police.

“Causing unimaginable distress to the men he falsely accused and the families caught up in his deception, he gladly took money from the authorities knowing he had fabricated the entire tale.

“Confiscating this money will not undo the harm of his lies, but it is the final step in making sure that Beech does not profit from the shameful false allegations he made.”

Authored by CPS via CPS June 8th 2021

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