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Day 5 of #NickTrial begins at Newcastle crown court. Prosecutor Tony Badenoch continues opening speech. Yesterday was taken up with prosecutor's opening speech, and he is about two-thirds the way through it.
Prosecutor tells #NickTrial that defendant refused to supply three journals in which he recorded sketches of abuse and venues. Jury will only see 20 pages that he supplied to Met. The journals were not found in any later police search, he adds.
Nick told Met that another boy went through abuse with him, prosecutor tells #NickTrial. Police gave this other boy the pseudonymn, 'Fred'.
Nick set up an encrypted e-mail account, pretending to be Fred and communicated through that account with Met officers, prosecutor tells #NickTrial.
Nick e-mailed his counsellor in 2011 and 2012 about his friend who he said went through abuse with him, but they completely contradict what he later told Met about him, prosecutor tells #NickTrial.
Nick set up Protonmail e-mail accounts to communicate with Met officers and an independent psycholoigist working with them pretending to be Fred, prosecutor tells #NickTrial. He wrote: "Nick and I went through hell together, but he's dealt with it a lot better than I ever will."
"This was a fabrication, this was a careful deceit," prosecutor tells #NickTrial re Fred e-mails. "This was going on as he was continuing his representations to the Met police that all these things had happened."
Nick also gave the Met the name, Aubrey, "who could assist with their enquiries having also been abused, again with him as he said with 'Fred,'" prosecutor tells #NickTrial. It was another false claim, court hears.
Nick "made money by making a fraudulent claim for criminal injuries," prosecutor tells #NickTrial. He received £22,000 and used £10,000 of it as a deposit for a convertible car, he says.
Northumbria Police found "the beginnings of his 'memoirs' and a document called 'Too Many Secrets", prosecutor tells #NickTrial, adding: "These documents actually provided yet more evidence to the investigation," contradicting aspects of his account to the Met.
Nick's ex-wife will give evidence in #NickTrial, prosecutor tells jury, and she will contradict his abuse claims to the Met.
Nick used "computer software designed to cover the tracks of internet usage," such as TOR and Protonmail, prosecutor tells #NickTrial. "He was adept at keeping secrets from the Metropolitan Police Officers."
Nick had a storage unit at the Big Yellow Storage Company from January 2016, but kept this from the Met and Northumbria Police, jury in #NickTrial hears.
Records later showed that Nick kept two boxes of paperwork at the storage unit, but the material has not been recovered, prosecutor tells #NickTrial. "It is the complete opposite of the behaviour of a victim of crime."
These were "yet more examples" of Nick's "frustrating enquiries and keeping secrets," prosecutor tells #NickTrial.
Prosecutor to #NickTrial: "Only he knows what was kept at the Big Yellow Storage unit and why he went there so soon after two particularly challenging encounters with two quite separate police forces."
Nick made online searches for places such as Pimlico, where he told the Met he was abused, prosecutor tells #NickTrial. He also looked up an article about claiming compensation for abuse by Jimmy Savile.
Nick made online searches for Carlton Club where he alleged that he was sexually abused, prosecutor tells #NickTrial, looking up pictures taken inside. But he says that Nick had told the Met that he had made sketches from memory.
Nick looked up Peter Hayman on Wikipedia, prosecutor tells #NickTrial. He told the Met that Hayman sexually abused him.
Nick looked up images and info online about Dolphin Square, prosecutor tells #NickTrial. He says that it was "as plain as day" that at least one sketch of Dolphin Square was "copied from the internet".
Nick also looked up information online about the generals, Sir Roland Gibbs and Lord Bramall, whom he also accused of sexual abuse, prosecutor tells #NickTrial.
Judge adjourns #NickTrial for lunch.
Prosecutor returns to material found on Nick's computers, as #NickTrial resumes after an hour break for lunch.
Nick had pictures on his work computer of those whom he accused of abuse to the Met, prosecutor tells #NickTrial. They included Lord Bramall, Lord Brittan, Sir Edward Heath, Sir Peter Hayman and Harvey Proctor.
"I have been opening the case now for a little while," prosecutor tells #NickTrial as he recovers some ground covered yesterday. And he is still only around three-quarters the way through his opening speech.
In essence, prosecutor tells #NickTrial: "He was falsifying evidence that he placed before the Metropolitan Police."
Northumbria Police seized electronic devices from Nick's home, prosecutor tells #NickTrial. "On those devices were found indecent images of young boys, covert images of school boys, and recordings."
"These child sex offences were committed whilst he was speaking to investigating police officers," prosecutor tells #NickTrial.
Prosecutor to #NickTrial: "At the same time as he perpetuated these lies about Harvey Proctor and so many others, he was also viewing indecent images of the gravest kind and spying on small boys."
"Those matters were something for which he was prosecuted quite separately to this indictment. He pleaded not guilty initially." But he changed his pleas in that case to guilty, prosecutor tells #NickTrial.
Prosecutor to #NickTrial: Nick "is a committed and manipulative paedophile, capable of deceit to investigators and limitless manipulation when required."
Prosecutor tells #NickTrial: "The sort of individual concerned only for himself, unconcerned with the impact on others... whether it is falsely accusing them of heinous crimes... or gathering covert indecent images of small boys visiting his house."
Prosecutor tells #NickTrial that defendant "has an interest in child pornography. Not something which is learnt behaviour from something which happened, but the reverse."
"He watches child pornography concerning boys, possesses it, records young boys covertly, and writes about it over hundreds of pages. It all suggests that he also wants to be a part of it," prosecutor tells #NickTrial.
When Northumbria Police interviewed Nick in July 2017 about its findings, prosecutor tells #NickTrial, "Over many hours of interviews, he responded only to say no comment."
In July 2017, says prosecutor at #NickTrial, "His lies were unravelling before his eyes." He fled the country, and set up a new life in Sweden, he says.
Nick bought a property in a remote forested area of northern Sweden in Overkalix, and then a second in Sleddo, #NickTrial hears. Prosecutor plays drone footage to jury of second property.
Nick "grew a lengthy beard as a rudimentary disguise" and used several false names, prosecutor tells #NickTrial.
Nick's allegations "have been thoroughly investigated by a different police force hundreds of miles away from London and found to cointain provable lies," proescutor to #NickTrial.
This case, prosecutor to #NickTrial, "is concerned with multiple provable significant lies... refusals to undergo non-invasive examinations, staying silent, committing other serious criminal offences, and ultimately fleeing the country."
"These were stories told to the police," prosecutor says in concluding his opening speech to #NickTrial, "by a thoroughly manipulative and deceitful individual."
Prosecutor tells #NickTrial that jury will hear evidence over around six weeks. With that, he ends his opening speech.
Judge tells jury that any member who feels unable to continue as a juror in #NickTrial to send him a note during a short mid-afternoon break. There are two spare jurors if anyone has to drop out.
Having heard prosecution opening speech in #NickTrial, judge discharges the two "spare" jurors, ie juror 13 and juror 14, which leaves 12 people - six women and six men - on the jury.
Nick denies 12 charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice and one of fraud. #NickTrial continues tomorrow.
