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    Carl Beech Archived Message

    Posted by scrabb on August 24, 2020, 11:03 pm

    I'm feeling really chuffed because I've just won a bet and been proved right (for once). The bet (against myself) was that Tom Watson wouldn't be mentioned in the documentary tonight on BBC2 about Carl Beech who's serving 18 years for making up stories about being abused as a child by Leon Brittain, Harvey Proctor and Lord Bramall. I lied -- actually I lost the bet because Watson WAS named just once in a 60-minute programme and then quickly and quietly forgotten.

    As I recall Watson spent some considerable time (several months? a couple of years?) building up his public profile as the brave undaunted champion of poor lads who'd been abused as children -- all on the say-so of Carl Beech. Now had this been another prominent political figure taking up the cause (Corbyn? Galloway? Salmond?) and it had ended so disastrously when it was shown he was supporting a liar and fantasist, can you just imagine the mileage (and whoops of joy) this would have given the film-makers? I kept waiting, and hoping, as the programme moved on to the end that Watson's role in this crock of shite would at least get an honourable mention -- but no, they let him off the hook. Wonder why?

    The only other thing to say about the entire affair is the shambolic amateurish incompetent "investigation" by the police (which cost £2 million)and why they never thought to ask Beech about providing some evidence for his accusations and to seek others who could corroborate his story. I mean, he did accuse the paedo "Group" of high-level people of murdering three young boys. You'd think there would be a police report or a criminal record of such crimes, but apparently they never bothered to look.

    Even more incredibly they didn't think to check Beech's computer files and downloads where they would have found images of child sexual abuse -- the most severe "A" category -- and Google searches he'd made of buildings in London (the Carlton Club) which he then reproduced as sketches of places he'd been taken to as a child as if from memory.

    You couldn't make it up. Well, you don't have to, it's all there.

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