"The extraordinary story of how the man who said he was the victim of a VIP paedophile ring ended up on the run in Sweden.
On a snowy bank overlooking an ice-covered river in the tiny, remote northern Swedish hamlet of Mjölan stands a small burgundy cabin. It would be unremarkable, were it not for one fact.
For six months last year it housed the man who triggered an ill-fated multimillion-pound police inquiry thousands of miles away in Britain that sent shockwaves through the heart of the political establishment.
It was, the Guardian discovered, the bolthole of 51-year-old Carl Beech – known as “Nick” before a judge stripped him of anonymity last year – whose claims of a Westminster VIP paedophile ring, supposedly responsible for the murder of three boys, sparked a £2m Scotland Yard investigation that closed in 2016 without a single arrest."
Revealed: how Carl Beech, the serial child abuse accuser, became the accused
On a snowy bank overlooking an ice-covered river in the tiny, remote northern Swedish hamlet of Mjölan stands a small burgundy cabin. It would be unremarkable, were it not for one fact.
For six months last year it housed the man who triggered an ill-fated multimillion-pound police inquiry thousands of miles away in Britain that sent shockwaves through the heart of the political establishment.
It was, the Guardian discovered, the bolthole of 51-year-old Carl Beech – known as “Nick” before a judge stripped him of anonymity last year – whose claims of a Westminster VIP paedophile ring, supposedly responsible for the murder of three boys, sparked a £2m Scotland Yard investigation that closed in 2016 without a single arrest."
Revealed: how Carl Beech, the serial child abuse accuser, became the accused