A convicted paedophile has been found guilty of making false allegations of murder and child sexual abuse against a string of public figures.
Carl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, was found guilty of 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.
His lies led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation which ended in no arrests or charges being made.
Beech, who denied the charges, did not react as the verdicts were delivered. He will be sentenced on Friday.
Jurors at Newcastle Crown Court took a day to reach their verdicts following a 12-week trial.
Known in media reports as "Nick", Beech accused senior politicians as well as army and security chiefs of sadistic sexual abuse and said he had witnessed boys being murdered in the 1970s and 1980s.
Operation Midland, a two-year long Met investigation which resulted from the allegations by the former NSPCC volunteer, closed in March 2016.In hours of tearful interviews with police, Beech falsely alleged a paedophile network consisting of establishment figures was operating in London and elsewhere during the 1970s and 1980s.
He falsely claimed his late stepfather, an Army major, had raped him and passed him on to the public figures to be tortured at military bases and sexually abused.
Former prime minister Sir Edward Heath, former Labour MP Lord Janner and ex-MI6 boss Sir Maurice Oldfield were among those he wrongly accused.Beech also claimed he had been raped by DJ and prolific sexual abuser Jimmy Savile, fraudulently collecting £22,000 compensation.
He wrongly accused the former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor of being directly involved in the murder of two boys - and also falsely implicated the former head of MI5, Sir Michael Hanley, in one of them.
Beech fabricated another claim about a boy being deliberately run over and suggested that he might have personally witnessed the killing of Martin Allen, who went missing as a teenager in 1979 and whose fate remains unknown.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49074879
Man who makes false allegations of child abuse turns out to be a lying pedo.
Cuntflop's real name isn't Carl Beech is it? How about Haumana?
