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TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2019
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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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