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By Stephen Wright
Associate News Editor
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‘NICK’ POLICE
SEARCHES
BROKE LAW
Memo to Meghan: Brits prefer
true royalty to fashion royalty
by SARAH VINE
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EXCLUSIVE
÷Bombshell as judge
behind inquiry reveals
‘perversion of justice’
÷He tells Mail: Officers
got search warrants
using false evidence...
÷...but says his damning
findings were ignored
by police watchdog
POLICE broke the law in
the bungled probe into
VIP child abuse fantasist
Nick, a former High Court
judge says today.
Sir Richard Henriques said offic-
ers used false evidence to obtain
search warrants to raid the homes
of retired Armed Forces chief Lord
Bramall, the widow of ex-Home
Secretary Lord Brittan and ex-Tory
MP Harvey Proctor and should
now face a criminal investigation.
In an astonishing intervention, he
tells the Daily Mail that Scotland
Yard detectives did not have the right
to search the properties because their
description of Nick – real name Carl
Beech – as a ‘consistent’ witness was
false, effectively fooling a judge into
granting the warrants.
He also alleges the ‘course of justice
Lies: Carl Beech’s claims led to witch-hunt Intervention: Sir Richard Henriques
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