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Carl Beech trial hears he ordered a convertible Ford Mustang on the day a public body decided to award him £22,000 in compensation

Jurors have heard he made an application the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in September 2013, which based on his complaint to Wiltshire Police the year before alleging abuse by his stepfather Ray Beech, Jimmy Savile, and a host of unnamed others

Beech accepts lying to the Wiltshire force, particularly by falsely naming a childhood friend as a fellow victim

Tony Badenoch QC, prosecuting, asked why his CICA application did not say he had lied in his police interview.

"There were no questions to that effect”, he said

Jurors heard that Mr Beech agreed to pay £34,000 for the car, involving a £10,000 deposit up front.

Asked where the deposit was going to come from, he said: “The money from CICA"

Beech also told the court he was taken abroad in a jumbo jet to be abused by powerful people.

He said he was taken "to Paris” and flew there on “a private flight"

When asked which type of plane, he said it was “a private 747”

“I don’t know if it was specifically to take me", Mr Beech explained, adding he did not recall who else was on the plane.

“It’s because you’re making it up as you go along”, the prosecutor said

The defendant also told jurors the former head of MI5 locked him in a room with a jar full of wasps.

"It was used for punishment at times”, he explained, claiming it happened between three and six times

Referring to the deceased spy chief Sir Michael Hanley, he said: "I think Michael has done it on one occasion".

Asked if it involved a “swarm” of the insects, Mr Beech said “it was a few” but "I’m afraid I don’t look around to count numbers"

"They had them in a jar and opened the jar and shut the door”, Beech said.

When Mr Badenoch said this might have been a "bit dangerous for them", the defendant said “it's wasps stings – it’s not a life and death situation”

The prosecutor said: “This is complete fantasy Mr Beech”.

“I wish it was”, he responded

Beech told the court how he set up a camera to covertly film a boy in a toilet.

The prosecutor asked if he was committing child sexual offences when he went to the Met Police.

“I thought it was later than that”, Beech said

“It's something I deeply regret. I shouldn’t have done it”, he told jurors.

He said he purposefully put a hidden “recording device” in the toilet to film a child out of "curiosity".

He denied gaining sexual gratification from small boys, saying: “There are no excuses”

The court heard that Beech told the Met about the supposed witness called Aubrey, who in court yesterday he admitted lying about to Wiltshire Police

The defendant has accepted he falsely told the Wiltshire force about a boy called Aubrey, claiming he was a fellow victim of the alleged paedophile ring, and that he based him on a real Aubrey he knew as a child in Bicester, Oxfordshire

Beech claims the real corroborative witness is actually called John but refuses to provide the court with a surname, saying John has never consented to such a move.

Detectives traced the real Aubrey, who confirmed he had nothing to do with the allegations and was never abused

Prosecutor Tony Badenoch QC showed the defendant an email he sent to DS James Townly, of the Met, on 9 October 2014 following an initial meeting and before his formal evidential interviews

The email said: “You asked for the names of the other boys. I only got to know a few of their first names - Aubrey, Steven, James, Andrew, Duncan, Alex and John are the ones I remember. There were a lot more but I don’t know their names”

Beech said he included the name Aubrey out of “confusion”.

He was pressed on details relating to the other names, such as where they lived or went to school.

“I have no idea”, said Mr Beech.

The prosecutor said there was "plainly no truth in all of them”

Jurors were shown another document – called “What happened to Aubrey, Ray and Ian?” – that had been found in the defendant’s garage in Gloucester.

The document suggested Aubrey reported abuse to the police and that his father was jailed after admitting various sex offences

Mr Badenoch asked: "It’s pure fiction isn’t?"

"It is yes”, Mr Beech replied.

He told jurors “I presume I did write it, but have no recollection at all”

Beech was also shown an email exchange between himself and DC Danny Chatfield, from the Met, on 31 July 2015.

The detective had written: “As you’d guess, we are trying to find Aubrey. Do you happen to know which school he went to?”

The defendant replied “Can I ask why you are trying to find Aubrey?” to which the officer had written “he’s a witness” and “it’s essential we find him!”

Beech offered to point out where he lived, adding: “Aubrey’s father did do things, but whether he was part of the group I don’t know. As for Aubrey himself, I don’t know if Aubrey was ever part of the wider group, but I was told to do things with him"

In court, the prosecutor asked: "Why are you offering to point them in the opposite, wrong direction?"

"I have no explanation. I shouldn’t have done that”, Mr Beech said.

He added: "The whole email is incorrect and I shouldn’t have written it”

The defendant told jurors “I didn’t know Aubrey’s father at all” and admitted he had been lying to the Met “on this occasion".

Mr Badenoch asked: "Was your own tangled web of deceit coming unstuck by now?"

"No I don’t think so”, Beech replied.