Harvey Proctor, 72, told how he pleaded with detectives, telling them they were “being taken for a ride” by a man who invented a non-existent Westminster child sex ring. Coming face to face with his accuser Carl Beech – previously known as Nick – for the first time, he told Newcastle Crown Court the allegations against him were “wrong, malicious, false and horrendous”. He said they were a “Kafkaesque nightmare”. 

Mr Proctor, a Conservative MP between 1979 and 1987, described how he had been happily working as private secretary for the Duke of Rutland when on March 4, 2015, the Metropolitan Police searched his home on the Belvoir Castle estate, Leics, over historic child sexual abuse including child murders.

As a result of the raid and publicity, Mr Proctor lost his job and also the home that went with it.

He added: “They were working on the basis that the allegations were believed by the Metropolitan Police because they had described them as credible and true.”

On June 16, 2015 Mr Proctor was told the details of the allegations against him, which included three child murders and several allegations of historic sexual abuse with children.

Torture Mr Proctor was among those Beech named when he went to police in 2014, claiming he suffered years of rape and torture in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Beech, from Gloucester, is charged with 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud over a £22,000 criminal injuries compensation payment. He denies the charges.

He had claimed other members of the alleged VIP paedophile ring included former prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-home secretary Lord Brittan and Lord Bramall, the ex-head of the Army.

At one point Beech, 51, claimed that Mr Proctor had murdered a boy during a sex game.

Tony Badenoch QC, prosecuting, asked the former politician: “You have been accused of the murder of children and of sadistic sexual offending, what do you say to that?” Mr Proctor replied: “The allegations are wrong, malicious, false and horrendous.”

Mr Proctor is the only person accused by Beech giving evidence at the trial.

The Yard’s £2million Operation Midland investigation into Beech’s claims closed in 2016 and the Met had to apologise to those who had been accused.

The trial continues.

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